Thursday, July 28, 2011

Seward Day 2


Roger and Sandy with friend Sally all dressed to kayak. We are heading across the cove to a point right behind us.
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Seward Day 2


Here we are ready to kayak for a couple hours. We had great fun. I did not take my camera so there are no pics of the dall porpoises, harbor seal, eagle with fish in hand and jellyfish.
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water taxi to the other side of the bay. They load the kayaks and us and off we go to have fun for the day
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kayak trip Don and my new friend Sally who I met on the the caravan
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waterfall with pool below which hold spawing salmon see next pic
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salmon laying eggs in a small pool on the fjord
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We are off on a cruise around the Kenai Fjord (a bay created by a glacier) The next pics are of our amazing day. We went to the Alaskan Sealife Center and a 6 hr cruise on the fjord. We saw some amazing sights and had a great lunch. Please look at all the pics they are something to behold
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As we came in from our wonderful day in the Fjord we had a treat of 2 Sea Otters floating along. So cute
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Sea Otter
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Sea otter playing in the bay
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these next few pics are almost like make believe.  These are icebergs.  They are locked in a lake by a glacier morain ( piles of rock pushed by a glacier)They are absolutely beautiful!!!
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ice berg
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We are on a boat cruising the Kenai Fjords and saw many amazing animals and birds along the way, but the most amazing sight of all was a group of 8 or 9 humpback whales "bubble netting". This is when a group of whales finds a large school of fish. They all work as a group diving in a circle, forcing bubbles out of their spout holes forming a kind of fish net out of these bubbles forcing the fish to stay in that "net" that circle of bubbles. Then the whales come up in the circle of bubbles with their mouths wide open and taken in thousands of fish at once. Notice that the seagulls know when this is happening and can also catch fish as they come to the surface with the whales. The captain of the boat and the hands we talked with said this is a very rare sight. I have so many more pics but can only pick a few for the blog
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diving down again
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a pod of humpback whales notice the birds above them.
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mouth open feeding
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humpback whales one with mouth open and birds flying above
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birds nesting on the little rock ledges
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mountain goat
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sea lions
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the boat came really close to this rock cliff with water gently running off and I really liked this pic
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humpback whale fluke(tail)
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