It was a really good week, but for some reason, I feel unmoved. Like the cool things are normal. So lets see... I saw some puffins out at the Inian Islands, and the waves and wind was nice for skiff tours. I love the Inians, and it was really nice to have the time out there, then over to George Island.
There was a Pigeon Gillemot which was swimming very close to the skiff, and let us get a nice close look, then swam away. We could see it flying under water, swimming with the wings
When we went into Glacier Bay, there was a bear hanging out on a rock that sat and watched us glide by, it was a laid back fellow.
In the keku Islands, there was a baby whale that I kayaked over to look at, and it was swimming around with its nose out of the water, being funny. It kept on doing small circles, and we sat quietly in the kayaks watching...Then Mama Whale came up and swam by us gently, passing us quite close. She had some propeller scars on her back, poor thing, but she was serene and beautiful and big as she swam by. Kelly, (another guide) was quite surprised that I didn't scream and freak out about the close encounter with a whale, but I never felt threatened. I knew she had a good idea where we were and wasn't going to bump us. My kayakers were also calm.
I also had a nice close bear viewing, for a short time, so I didn't get any photos, but we were walking around in a hilly and difficult terrain, and I had seen some bear tracks and chompings of Skunk Cabbage, so I knew one was around, and as I was walking along a cliff edge, there were two down below me, about 50 ft away. I stopped and got my group together as they wandered off through the brush, so we got a short view (no pictures) and they were gone, but we could hear them slowly moving still. Again, I didn't feel threatened or even have much of a rise in heart rate, it just seemed normal.
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Varrah Mariesha
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