Even on its coldest, wettest, most miserable summer days, Alaska is still a place that impresses and inspires awe.
On Cory's most recent visit we took the same wildlife cruise I took last year with my parents, and the weather could not have been more different. But even though it was rainy and foggy, the scenery was still amazing. The mountains all around were hiding their peaks in wispy fog, providing what may have been an even more interesting landscape.
Luckily, when we pulled into Holgate Arm to view the eponymous glacier, the glacial winds gave us a respite, which is good because my hands were almost so frozen that I couldn't use the camera in the first place. While we were viewing the massive ice formations around us, enthralled by the lone seal chilling on an ice floe just feet from the glacier, someone spotted a bald eagle above. I just started snapping pictures like crazy(er) and was very pleasantly surprised to capture this stunning, beautiful, and understated result.
