After averaging and observing weather patterns for the past month, last week we pressed the okay, on the booking button, for a marine tour out of Seward, Alaska. It was a long shot, given the months history, but turned out to be spectacular. It was one of the very few sunny and warm days in the Kenai Peninsula areas we were in. A smaller vessel with a captain and a crew of 3. 44 people out of possible 60 on board, was wonderful. The videos and the pictures are many, but I couldn’t choose which ones to eliminate so I used them all. They are in no way as close to the real thing because the views were nothing but spectacular. The captain said the Gulf of Alaska always has waves but this day it did not. He said he wasn’t sure if he had ever seen it so smooth. The wild life viewing opportunities do not get any better than what we had. Difficult to capture on the photos but I did try. Used only an iPhone 14 pro.
The pictures to follow are all Kenai Fjords National Park. Gulf of Alaska. Starting from Resurrection Bay cruising all the way to Northwestern Glacier and Harris Bay, Holgate Glacier and Aialik Glacier in Aialik Bay, Bear Glacier. The tight pinnacle areas are the Chriswell Islands.
The pictures to follow are all Kenai Fjords National Park. Gulf of Alaska. Starting from Resurrection Bay cruising all the way to Northwestern Glacier and Harris Bay, Holgate Glacier and Aialik Glacier in Aialik Bay, Bear Glacier. The tight pinnacle areas are the Chriswell Islands.
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I hope I loaded the video with the whales song. The crew put a microphone into the water and you could hear the whales song occasionally. The Orcas kinda sounded like a horse 😳.
These next pictures were of a few different pods of Humpback whales. The above picture is the end of a Bubble net feeding behavior that they do. The whales swim in a circle blowing bubbles to disorientate the herring and stun them. When you hear the whales sing then you know to look for their heads coming out of the water. Their mouths are open and fill with fish. The sea gulls are our first clue to go look in that direction for the Bubble net. They get the left overs.
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Babies of all species just seem to be goofy. This was a baby humpback whale that entertained us for a very long time and was still going at it when we left.
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God’s greatest adventures…so appreciated. And a wonderful day ending with dinner made by our friends at their place and a fire not picture at our place. 🥰
Thank you Bill and Wendy.
Thank you Bill and Wendy.
Kids they never do what you want them to when you need them to. They wouldn’t look at me the same time 🤭
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