Peaceful Portage Bay
by Robert Bales
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Peaceful Portage Bay
Artist
Robert Bales
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Photograph - Photo
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While camping next to Portage Bay in Haines, Alaska I took this looking across Portage Bay early in the morning..
Hanies is a census-designated place located in Haines Borough, Alaska, United States. It is in the northern part of the Alaska Panhandle, near Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve.
As of the 2010 census, the population of the Haines CDP was 1,713, out of a total 2,508 in Haines Borough.
Haines is located The community is bounded by Portage Cove of Chilkoot Inlet to the east and by the Chilkat River at its mouth into the Chilkat Inlet to the west. To the south, down the Chilkat Peninsula, Haines is bordered by the CDP of Mud Bay, and to the north it is bordered by the Lutak CDP. It all part of the Lynn Canal. Lynn Canal's location as a penetrating waterway into the interior connects Skagway and Haines, Alaska, to Juneau and the rest of the Inside Passage thus making it a major route for shipping, cruise ships, and ferries.
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April 10th, 2023
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