I'm nearing the end of my rotation on the ship, and this trip from Dutch Harbor has been a great one. There were foxes in Dutch harbor that I saw.
I think this is an arctic fox.
Here is a Laysan Albatross that we saw just after Dutch. The weather was pretty crappy for a few days, and we had some rain and lots of wind.
Here's a female Harlequin duck
And some rain on the grass
And in the shumagain islands there were a lot of otters on land, with this mama hauling her baby around with her.
A nice Pidgeon gillemot
This is a Whiskered Auklet, but sadly I didn't get a good picture of it as it was flying away.
I had two eagles screaming.
An otter looking cute
And as we came to Wide Bay, the weather got really nice. We had two bears as we came into the bay
I love the mountains around that bay
Residual swell made for nice waves
I got to hike up this hill, and it was beautiful
Here's a shot of Dai Mar and Carrie coming to shore
I'm not sure of this flower, but I like how they look
The mountains!
I found a Rock Ptarmigan up the hill.
Are these Forget-me nots?
I found two bears on that hike, and got as close as I could. It was a mamma and a cub.
The Lupine are blooming and it is amazing
And the ship as I was coming back from an afternoon skiff tour.
On my skiff tour there was a little lake I went over and looked at, and it was quite charming
When we went to Kukak Bay, we had a great experience with a bear. This bear was resting in the meadow and we walked over to look at it.
After watching him sleep for about 30 minutes, he got up and started eating grass about 80 ft away from us.
He got closer, to about 70 or 60 ft, and we eventually headed back.
There was also a moose that walked across the beach near us at the same time.
At Kodiak we had some tufted puffins in a cave
And more lupine
And at Northwestern Glacier we had amazing calving. Almost nonstop pieces falling all over the place.
A few big ones too.
And when they hit the water it was really cool.
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