Before breakfast this morning, National Geographic Venture crossed "the bar," the shallow terminal moraine at the entrance of Tracy Arm. Farther up the fjord, bergy bits and growlers became much more numerous. When the ice became too thick for our ship to navigate safely, we boarded Zodiacs to cruise among the myriad of beautiful pieces of floating ice. In the afternoon, we stretched our legs in the forest at Williams Cove.
- Daily Expedition Reports
- 10 May 2022
Tracy Arm, Williams Cove, 5/10/2022, National Geographic Venture
- Aboard the National Geographic Venture
- Alaska
Berit Solstad, Naturalist
Berit grew up on the rocky shores of Marblehead, Massachusetts, where she explored the marine environment through changing tides and seasons, nurturing a love of natural history and marine biology.
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