alaska

A lot has happened since someone last blogged. I will go backward from today and catch you all up. We arrived in Anchorge yesterday afyer a 3 hour bus ride from Seward. So far we have not done much excet walk aroun and have dinner. It is expemsive here to eat because the cost of living is high.
Yesterday we left the ship early to start on our land tour. We landed in Seward. We immediately got on a small boat for a tour of Lenai Fyord. At first we were dissapointed by a few sightings of dolphin and whale that we personally did not see. Then things started to come together. We passed by some seal habitating on a rock near hundreds of birds including puffins, gulls and cormorants. An eagle sat nearby in a tree waiting for a meal. We saw a large glacier among many in Kenai Fyord. It was about a mile wide and we did see som calving. On the return trip we were able to see a humpback whale breach and watch her and her young whale swimming in the water and diving a few times. Then we saw a pod of Orcas swimming around and under our boat. They were truly impressive. Hope I got good video.
The previous day we were still on the cruise ship and we sailed up into College Fyord to see the glaciers there. We sat for quite a while in front of Harvard glacier and watched the calving there. The color of the glaciers is amn amazkng color of blue which is now my favorite color.
The day before that was also a day at sea and we went to glaacier bay national park. There we saw some whales, sea otters, puffins. Everything wad far away merely because of the size of the ship. The Margerie glacier we saw was fabulous. We whitnessed some calving there.
Prior to this we were in Skagway, Juneau, Ketchikan. We did activities in each town some of which being kayaking biking hiking tram rides to the top of mt ronerts and a train ride up to white pass. The beauty of this place is too immense to describe. It is all my favorite places quantified exponentially. I am looking forward to the adventure continuing