Tracy Arm is about 40 miles south of Juneau.  It was formed by the Sawyer Glacier.  The cliffs in this picture are about 1500 to 2000 feet tall.  Karen refused to swim to the shore to lend perspective to this shot.

Here is a momma and baby harbor seal.  The brash ice near the glacier face is a seal maternity ward since the ice is safe from predators.  We could tell (because the naturalist on board told us) that this baby seal was just born.  You could see the umbilical cord still attached to the pup.  We saw blood on many of the chunks of ice where the seals had recently given birth.   We saw babies of all sizes. 

This is Sawyer Glacier.  All the dark spots you see in the foreground are seals.  There were well over a hundred seals resting on the ice.  Because of the ice we couldn't get too close to the Glacier.  While watching for the glacier to calf, we saw about seven bald eagles circling over head.  We also saw a mountain goat grazing on the rock face.

It's cold in front of the glacier, but worth it.  We both were glad we packed warm clothes, hats and gloves.   Notice the brilliant blue bergy bits in the background.  When the ice first calves off it is incredibly blue.  As it weathers, it turns white.     

Here we're practicing to abandon ship.  We're not sure what the lady on the left is practicing.

Our first sighting of a humpback whale.  This one is feeding about 50 feet from the shore.   The Captain said the water was about 400 feet deep. 

Karen got this picture of the whale flukes.  The people on deck with Karen got a laugh as she jumped up and down shouting "I got tail!".