Into the Tongass — A Small Ship Cruise through Alaska’s Inside Passage

David A. Laws
17 min readAug 1, 2019

“One is borne smoothly over calm blue waters, through the midst of countless forest-clad islands” — John Muir

The mile-wide face of the Margerie Glacier, Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve

An archipelago of more than one thousand verdant islands, an ancient matrilineal society, and a zip code where brown (grizzly) bears outnumber residents by three…

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David A. Laws

I photograph and write about Gardens, Nature, Travel, and the history of Silicon Valley from my home on the Monterey Peninsula in California.