Alaskan cruise
Newforma Cofounder and Executive Vice President of Strategy Bob Batcheler shot 1,600 pictures on an Alaskan cruise last summer. To give you a taste, we winnowed the batch down to 11.
Day 1: Vancouver. The Batcheler family's cruise ship, the Radiance of the Seas, departed from the white-roofed terminal across the bay. (It's the building with the sail-shaped roof.) The low, sloped-roof convention center to the right of the terminal was designed by Newforma customer LMN Architects.
Day 4: Icy Strait Point. Batch shot this picture standing on the zipline launch platform, 1,300 feet above the landing platform at sea level. The ride up took 35 minutes. The ride down took a lot less time!
Day 4: Icy Strait Point. Batch’s family riding the zipline; they are the four on the right.
Day 4: Icy Strait Point. The Radiance of the Seas cruise ship forms a backdrop to common fireweed (epilobium angustifolium).
Day 4: Icy Strait Point. Each day, after seeing to the stateroom, the attendant left a towel folded as an animal. After riding the zipline, the Batchelers
were treated to a “person” – a figure riding a zipline.
Day 5: Juneau. On a whale-watching cruise, the party saw humpbacks and these three Orcas. The Orcas appeared to be a family – perhaps a mother with a youngster and a teenager.
Day 5: Juneau. A male and female sockeye salmon in the stream issuing from Mendenhall Glacier. The red fish is the male in his freshwater phase.
Day 5: Juneau. This black bear is napping in a tree near the Mendenhall Glacier, sleeping off a meal of fresh salmon.
Day 5: Juneau. The Mendenhall Glacier.
Day 6: Skagway. View of the countryside as seen from the White Pass & Yukon Route narrow gauge railway.
Day 7: Mount Saint Elias. This view of the second-highest peak in the United States (and Canada) was shot while cruising toward Seward. The mountain straddles the Yukon and Alaska border.