Dundas Bay Lay Day

Sunshine two days in a row—Alaska must be trying to make up for the soggy start to our season.

mirror flat water this morning

Dundas Bay delivered a stunner today. Towering granite peaks encircle the anchorage, their snowcapped summits feeding a network of ribbon-thin waterfalls that spill into the quiet arms of the bay. It’s the kind of place that makes you stop and just take it all in.

dundas bay has a bit of the wow factor

There’s not much ground for dinghy adventures here, but the shoreline offers a different kind of entertainment: black bears. Lots of them. Both the east and west shores had a steady parade of bears grazing from patch to patch. Not the most dramatic of wildlife encounters, but captivating in their own slow, deliberate way.

the west shore also provided good bear watching

the alluvial fan at the head od dundass bay

Sea otters floated by in the current, unbothered by us, perfectly at home in this remote corner of Glacier Bay National Park. With views like this and a front-row seat to Alaska’s wildlife, who needs to move?

looking back down dundas bay. The long trip to the head is worthwhile.