I was mistakenly thinking that the cerulean color of the water was due to its pristine nature of the water coming from the glacier. Apparently, this mind blowing color is rendered by glacier silt in the water that is still in suspension and has not had a chance to sediment out.

These mountains start from the water and go straight up thousands and thousands of feet…

I was scanning the mountain side for bears and mountain goats with the binoculars and zoom lenses when this dead tree caught my attention. It is almost like it was uprooted flat out from its base and then laid down onto the ground right next to the water…

First peak spotted as the boat got out of the Bartlett cove and the clouds lifted..

No problem!! We just fish it out of the water. Pristine clean glacier ice!!

We saw numerous whales with their plumes and tail thrashing. Unfortunately, all of them were very far away…

A black bear again looking for food up the slopes…

This time it was a brown bear. The mama bear was huge and had three cubs following it. We were a comfortable mile and a half away in the water…

It was a black bear that had started swimming about a couple of miles away and swam to the other side of the shore…

Speaking of lazy sea lions and cormorants, here are a couple of sea gulls that refused to fly. They just sat on the ice floe that broke off from the glacier and kept floating along…