Juneau and Glacier Bay again

I spent about a week in Juneau, and I did a few hikes that like; climbing Mt Juneau!  There are lots of Marmots on the top.

There are lots of Mountian Goats on the top too.

And here's the view of the valley.  Looking west you can see the fairweather mountains.

Then I took my friend Tyler and we headed out to Glacier Bay.  We set off for the East Arm and passed by South Marble Island, and saw the sea lions there.

Also we got some close puffins.  This one's a Tufted Puffin

And here's a Horned Puffin

Then we found a family of bears on the beach.  These little ones must be this year, and right next to them there was another family of four as well.  An 8 bear beach!  

The other family of four were bigger.  Here's mama with one cub practicing rolling over rocks together.

There were lots of bears on the beach, this one let us get real close, she's got some barnacles on her muzzle.

Then we went in to McBride Inlet.  It used to be this terrifying inlet to go into, with huge currents (they still exist) and giant blocks of ice grounded in the middle of the current (no more) and smaller (but still big) growlers bouncing off them as they flowed with the current.  Sadly there was almost no ice in the flow as we paddled in, but we had lots of current, something like 8-10 kts and so we went fast.  Then we paddled a long ways to get to the face of the glacier.  It looks like most tidewater glaciers.

Here's Tyler in front of McBride

We got out and climbed up for a better view.

And got a picture of ourselves in front

On our way out we had lots of rain and there was a great rainbow

And lots of wind too.  Going up Lynn Canal it was big waves and lots of wind and here's tyler steering the boat.  Layla held up great to the trip and despite all the rain and the big seas we had to crash through, I haven't found anything broken.  Its really rainy for the next two days and then Abe shows up and we'll go for another trip.