Cruising back to Seward
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canyonwalkerAlaska Travelog #14
Asea in Resurrection Bay - Sun, 16 Jun 2024, 5:30pm
Our day cruise to Kenai Fjords made good time on the trip back to Seward. Partly that was to make up time for losing an hour to engine trouble in the morning. Partly it was because we'd already seen a lot of wildlife in the morning, too. I mean, we saw a bald eagle before leaving the marina, playful sea otters a few minutes later, and a breaching humpback whale not long after that. (In fact, the captain speculated that it was during all these stops that seaweed got into the cooling intake and gummed up the works.) Later we saw killer whales and a bunch of different birds. On the way back, already late, we did stop for another pair of humpbacks. One was a juvenile who seemed to be literally jumping for joy. Unfortunately none of my photos or videos of this turned out as good as I hoped. Just catching good views of whales is tough; getting good photos of them is even more difficult.
One of the crew amused me with an annotated chart of where we'd gone and what we'd seen during the cruise. Well, he didn't do it just to amuse me. He did it to amuse everyone. I think I was the only one who liked it, though. 😅
As we steamed back toward Seward I watched the views out the windows. It was miles and miles of snow-capped mountains, some with glaciers, on both sides of Resurrection Bay.
Heres' a photo of Seward as we approach it from the west (above).
And this is a photo looking north at Seward. This is what's behind our hotel. See the view looking across the bay from our hotel in my Saturday night blog.
In almost any other place mountain views like these would be wondrous. Here they're so abundant they've became almost hum-drum. As much fun as this cruise has been, we'll be happy to be back on dry land in a few minutes.
Asea in Resurrection Bay - Sun, 16 Jun 2024, 5:30pm
Our day cruise to Kenai Fjords made good time on the trip back to Seward. Partly that was to make up time for losing an hour to engine trouble in the morning. Partly it was because we'd already seen a lot of wildlife in the morning, too. I mean, we saw a bald eagle before leaving the marina, playful sea otters a few minutes later, and a breaching humpback whale not long after that. (In fact, the captain speculated that it was during all these stops that seaweed got into the cooling intake and gummed up the works.) Later we saw killer whales and a bunch of different birds. On the way back, already late, we did stop for another pair of humpbacks. One was a juvenile who seemed to be literally jumping for joy. Unfortunately none of my photos or videos of this turned out as good as I hoped. Just catching good views of whales is tough; getting good photos of them is even more difficult.
One of the crew amused me with an annotated chart of where we'd gone and what we'd seen during the cruise. Well, he didn't do it just to amuse me. He did it to amuse everyone. I think I was the only one who liked it, though. 😅
As we steamed back toward Seward I watched the views out the windows. It was miles and miles of snow-capped mountains, some with glaciers, on both sides of Resurrection Bay.
Heres' a photo of Seward as we approach it from the west (above).
And this is a photo looking north at Seward. This is what's behind our hotel. See the view looking across the bay from our hotel in my Saturday night blog.
In almost any other place mountain views like these would be wondrous. Here they're so abundant they've became almost hum-drum. As much fun as this cruise has been, we'll be happy to be back on dry land in a few minutes.
