An eight-day Glacier Bay and Inside Passage itinerary takes travelers into the distant corners and coves of Glacier Bay National Park on a small 76-passenger ship.
With the end of the season in sight, Bay said the passage of time had allowed him to evaluate his troubles with a clearer perspective.
A wide shallow opening in the island chain, located between the Ragged Keys and Key Biscayne just north of the park's boundary, is called the Safety Valve, as it allows storm surge water to flow out of the bay after the passage of tropical storms.
With more than 663,000 cruise passengers in Alaska last year and some 730,000 expected this year, according to the North West CruiseShip Association, the Inside Passage, Glacier Bay and Denali National Park are becoming almost as familiar to cruise passengers as are the Bahamas, Bermuda and Cancún.
Among the cruises available are 12-day round-trip voyages from Los Angeles, visiting the Inside Passage; Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, a UNESCO world heritage site; as well as Juneau, Ketchikan and Skagway.
Narwhals inhabit the inshore bays and island passages of northeastern Canada, Greenland and Svalbard from July through September [ 2- 5].
It was protected by Fort Morgan, the ironclad Tennessee, and a string of mines (called torpedoes) in the narrow entrance passage to the bay.
The movie then cuts to a different view of the Ferry Building site, panning back to Market Street, where wagons are lined up for passage across the bay.
The bay opened onto the Windward Passage, one of the hemisphere's most trafficked sea-lanes, linking the Eastern Seaboard to the Gulf of Mexico, Central and South America, and, through the Panama Canal, the Pacific Ocean.
In enclosed water bodies with strong currents (such as bays and sounds), turbid channels show up on Landsat imagery, showing where currents are carving deeper channels that are safe for boat passage.
