Alaska Day 4 - Juneau Entering the port of Juneau. Juneau is the capitol city of Alaska.
The ship slowly docks.
The Northwest Coast - map of going through the Inside Passage.
Outdoorsman s Guide to Hiking & Fishing in Juneau. My brother fills out the form for a fishing license. Cost = $25
http://chumfun.com/ Chum Fun Charters with Paul Turinsky & son. I spot an eagle flying near our fishing spot.
The eagle lands on a pole. My brother fishing off of the dock near the hatchery.
I make friends with a native named John Shorty. Adolf checks out the fish that someone else caught. We didn t catch anything.
The fishermen on shore, next to the hatchery, were snagging their fish. A sculpture of a mother bear and her cubs at the entrance to the hatchery.
Sign: The Fish Ladder is a 450 ft. Long serpentine channel designed to allow an easy climb up an otherwise impossible slope. The water flow of this ladder has been designed to attract spawning adults by simulating the flow of a natural stream and by providing numerous underwater passage ways and resting pools.
A view of the salmon in the water (fish ladder). The view of the fish ladder and the fishermen on the shoreline, with the dock beyond that.
Fishing guide Paul Turinsky tells the story of Ladd Macaulay, and the visitor center that is dedicated to him. Established 1989. http://www.dipac.net/visit/ An Eagle display in the visitor center.
Macaulay Salmon Hatchery exhibits. small species. Freshwater Rearing Phase:
Saltwater Rearing Phase: All salmon are transported out of the hatchery in late winter through spring to saltwater net pen sites, where they will undergo the process of imprinting for 1 to 3 months. Release and Ocean Migration Phase. 90% fall victim to predation.
Spawning Phase: Once salmon return to their initial release sites, they are near the final stages of maturation and are preparing to spawn. Egg and Incubation Phase: Fertilized eggs are transported to the incubation trays to start the process of development of new fish.
King Salmon, Pink Salmon, Silver Salmon, Chum, and Sockeye. At the Bear Display.
Brown Bear (Ursus arctos) Next excursion: At the Allen Marine for a whale cruise on the ship St. Phillip. The Whale Quest and Mendenhall Glacier excursion cost $190 per person.
Heading for the Lynn Canal with Captain Dan. Whales travel here from Hawaii. View of mountains in the background and a lighthouse in the foreground.
A river of ice (glacier) is spotted in the distance. View of the Chilkat mountain range. Nun Mt. Is 4,415 feet high.
Herbert glacier. Sea lions basking in the sun on Little Island.
Sea lions making a lot of noise. A humpback whale is spotted. Whales birth in Hawaii and travel to Alaska to eat. http://wildwhales.org/classify/baleen-whales/humpback-whale/
The fluke (tail) of the whale is its identifying part. Another whale boat heads to the next whale sighting.
Chart of whale flukes (tails) sighted near Juneau.
Display of whale baleen plate. https://oceantoday.noaa.gov/whaleanatomy/ Returning to Allen Marine.
Captain Dan says good-bye to us. On to Mendenall Glacier Visitor Center in the Tongass National Forest.
View of the Mendenhall Glacier from the visitor center. Sign: Mysterious Ponds formed by a retreating glacier.
Sign: A Landscape Shaped by Moving Ice.
Sign: A Slow Struggle to Reclaim Barren Land.
Sign: A Waterfall that Moved. Nugget Creek flowed under the glacier and poured out through its face, forming an ice cave.
A view of the glacier, the waterfall and creek, and the lake.
Admiring the work of Mother Nature at Mendenhall Glacier.
A close-up view of Mendenhall Glacier Sign: Recipe for a glacier - Squeezing white snow into blue ice.
Satellite photo of the glaciers & icefield above Mendenhall glacier. Exhibit: Never staying in just one place. A moving river of ice.
Sign: From Desolation to Diversity. As the glacier retreats, life returns and more complex habitats support a wider variety of animal life. Sign: The Dance of Life.
A map of the Juneau Icefield
Sign: A Valley Air Conditioned by Ice. Feel the Cool Breeze on your face. Sign: Features in a Glacial Landscape. Although the glacier has been retreating, it has left many clues of its former movement and present power.
Sign: Patterns in a Changing Landscape.