we had fun watching them eat
this cow had a bull friend nearby
they were eating in a parking lot on the way out of Kincaid Park (you can see Jason's orange shirt from the driver's seat of our
Julie and Jason at the Flattop lookout - one last view before we put her on a plane back to lower 48
Julie in downtown Anchorage - we got a sunny day to stroll around
Jason had to sing a Seamus song with him
Hobo Jim at the Yukon Bar in Seward on a Sunday night
watch out for that stuffed bear!
those McEachen kids clowing around
unfortunately the clouds didn't lift that day so Julie didn't get to see the full majesty of the area around Seward
horned puffins
Murre - this bird looks like a penguin and acts like a penguin, but lives in Alaska and is NOT a penguin
Puffin in flight - they actually fly pretty awkward in air - they are made to fly in water
bird in flight
see the AK starfish? orange and purple
this group had some active sea lions in the water
who's the king?
Lazy Sea Lions
as we moved away from the face, we could see the glacier goes on quite a ways - and meets up with the Harding Icefield
lots of cracks mean future ice bergs in waiting
boom
here goes another section - like a big ice fall
amazing - nature at work
boom - we got some ripples
big splash in water
here it goes...
this section was active - calving quite a bit (that means ice was dropping off)
we were there too
Julie and the glacier
thousands of years of layers
pretty blue ice and may layers (gray is often volcano ash)
the blue sky peaked out for us
Julie has some glacier ice in her hand - Jason was sad he didn't have scotch with him (another time though)
rugged glacier ice
Aialak Glacier - first view from boat
continues his search for food
pretty black bear (across the water is close enough for us)
he made it to the other side
black bear swimming
nice fluke
another humpback whale
tufted puffin
goodbye whale
hump back again
moving along
pretty fluke
there's that hump back
definitely a humpback whale - mostly resting though
the whale peaked out - this move is called a "spyhop"
a whale is nearby
