This fine morning and in preparation for our Kenai Fjords Glacier Boat tour, we wore jeans over our pajamas, plus 6 layers of shirts and coats. In addition to our gloves and scarfs, we also purchased hats with ear flaps. The land... temperature was 34 degrees!
Our 6-hour (100 miles) tour included seeing three glaciers: Aialik, Holgate and Bear.
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| Aialik Glacier - actively calving |
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| Aialik Glacier - actively calving |
Captain Tim showed us a variety of wildlife:
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| Sea Otter |
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| Cormorants |
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| Sea Lions |
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| Humpback Whale |
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| Humpback Whale |
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| Sea Lion |
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| Sea Lions |
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| Bald Eagle |
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| Sea Lions |
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| Mountain Goat |
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| Bald Eagle |
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| Sea Otter |
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| The weather morphed during our six hours and different locations |
Seward (population of 2.700) is a quaint place - a favorite. Our hotel, pair of pier-side restaurants, boat tour, gift shops, bakery and all purpose two-story hardware/grocery store were all within the same city block. We parked our rental car and never touched it again until we left Seward.
Seward's harbor hosts harbor seals, sea otters, huge colorful jellyfish and last summer I saw Arctic terns here.
We returned to Ray's for dinner. Perpendicular to us, from across the harbor and quite low... flew a bald eagle: directly over our table!
More amazing photos! And such variety! Looks like a trip that shouldn't be missed!! How big was the boat? How many people onboard that time of year?
ReplyDeleteThe website says the boat is 95' long and coast guard licensed for 150 passengers. I think they said there were 60 of us that day. Very nice group - polite, considerate and engaging. http://www.kenaifjords.com/experience/our-fleet-crew/
ReplyDeleteThis is incredible that you got so close to glaciers...I love the sea otter...and mom looks adorable!
ReplyDeleteShe really does! Thanks, Jenny!
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