Adventures in Alaska

Go Wild this Summer

2021 promises to be an epic year for adventures. After the long struggles with isolation, social turmoil and yes, claustrophobia, a return to adventure travel is beyond welcome. If there was ever a time to nourish your soul in the beauty of nature, it’s on the way.

Adventures Northwest will be leading three photography cruises in Alaska this summer. We’ll be travelling aboard the M/V David B., an elegant 65-foot wooden boat built in 1929 and lovingly refurbished and updated by Jeffrey and Christine Smith, a husband-and-wife team that live to explore the astoundingly beautiful coastline of Alaska. You will never find people that love what they do more than Jeffrey and Christine.

The M.V David B.

Adventure travel on the David B. is in a league of its own—the opposite of industrial tourism. Passengers share once-in-a-lifetime experiences with a handful of fellow travelers, experiencing some of the planet’s most spectacular wildlife and scenery in comfort and awe. Photography is the focus of these trips, with itineraries and logistics optimized to maximize capturing the grandeur with camera and lens. In-depth instruction (including postprocessing in Adobe Lightroom) will be provided by photographer/teacher/ technician extraordinaire Alan Sanders and Adventures Northwest publisher/ editor/photographer John D’Onofrio.

Alaska Fjords with the Brown (Grizzly) Bears of Admiralty Island May 28-June 4, 2021

Tarr Inlet, Glacier Bay Brown Bear at Pack Creek, Admiralty Island

This tour offers up the rich diversity of the wonders of Southeast Alaska in a non-stop succession of visual astonishments: Frederick Sound and its humpback whales; Fords Terror, with its lacework of waterfalls; and a close encounter with the towering face of the Dawes Glacier. For many, the highlight is a visit to the Pack Creek Bear Viewing Area on Admiralty Island, called Kootznoowoo by the Tlingit people who live here. Translation: Fortress of the Bears. This name is apt. The island boasts the highest concentration of brown bears in North America (one per square mile!).

Alaska Fjords – Tracy Arm, Endicott Arm & Fords Terror June 27-July 4, 2021

Fords Terror

This round-trip from Juneau offers an opportunity for extensive exploration of the Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness with up close-and-personal views of the Dawes and Sawyer Glaciers, an unforgettable ride through Fords Terror and more waterfalls than you’ve ever seen in your life. We’ll spend days deep in the canyon-like fjords observing and photographing the awe-inspiring spectacle including wildlife such as humpback whales, orcas, and brown and black bears.

Glacier Bay July 17-24, 2021

Exploring the Reid Glacier

If Glacier Bay isn’t on your ‘bucket list’, it should be. Discover the stunning scenery of this UNESCO World Heritage Site in intimate detail aboard the David B.: majestic mountains, tidewater glaciers, icebergs, and ancient forests. Iconic wildlife abounds in Glacier Bay including whales, brown and black bears, tufted puffins, porpoises, moose, sea lions, otters, mountain goats, and eagles. We’ll go ashore and explore landscapes of towering blue ice, fireweed and vistas that are among the planet’s most dramatic.

Current COVID-19 precautions will be observed on all trips. ANW

Shore excursion at Glacier Bay

Learn more about these once-in-alifetime trips and sign up to join us at www. adventuresnw.com/photo-workshops