Second Aleutians trip

We did our second Aleutian Islands trip, and it was a nice time.  We started off in Dutch Harbor and found a nice little Arctic Ground Squirrel there.

And the willows are starting to bud out now.  Everything is turning green now.

We went looking around the northern end of Unalaska Island, and found some really cool caves along there. I'd like to explore around there more in the future.

On Akutan island we found a fish that washed up, it was about 6 ft long and had tons of big teeth, and its called a Lancetfish

A little further on we found some Caribou, and they came walking along the mountain and got pretty close

One of them was a male with big antlers

Here he is on the hill watching us

On a hike elsewhere I found some Rock Sandpipers

And a surfbird that let us get really close in a skiff

In Katmai we had great bears, of course.  One was digging up small fish in the intertidal zone

A red fox was also doing that

The bear later on was munching on grass

And we had some nesting Cormorants up in the rocks there too.

We found lots of orca, maybe a pod of 100 or so

And then at Kodiak we found more foxes, eating the same fish in the sand.  The fish are called Sand Lance

This little fox let us sit down on the beach and came pretty close to us 

Chomping on those fish

Occasionally she would go and hide the fish somewhere and then come back for more

I also spotted some Parakeet Auklets

They are super cute

This is the first time I've seen them

Dancing and singing to each other

The final day we went to Kenai and had a great time at the Northwestern Glacier

Here's a video of a fox digging up a sand lance

And one of the glacier doing a super cool calving, where it comes down as an avalanche