Whale Watching and Wild Life Quest, Juneau Alaska

OK,  

this is an extra long post

because I want to finish up with

the whale watching quest.

I did edit down the number of photos. 

But still there's too many.

I'm not sorry. (smile)

Can you see the rainbow 

that is showing in the mist from the whale?

The whales are coming straight at us.

Our boat's engine is off at this point.

 

So very close.

They swam under us and 

came up on the other side of the boat.

About right here,

a whale came up blowing his spout

all over those of us at the rail.

There was whale snot

 raining down on us.

It was exciting, and awesome.

Spectacular.

A short time later the whales 

were back to bubble net feeding.

More tail shots.

Then more bubble net feeding.

Off they go.

It was time for us to head back.

It was just beyond beautiful there.

Our naturalist and crew

demonstrating the humpback's method

of bubble net feeding.

She  also said that we had just seen

behavior that 

 National Geographic comes 

to Alaska to document.

Even the crew members were thrilled

with what we all had just witnessed.

It was truly spectacular.

~~~

Too soon, it was time to head back 

on our tour bus and straight into

a construction delay.

Thank goodness we were on a 

Princess sponsored tour as

the ship will not leave without us

if we were late getting back.

We were the very last people to arrive

back at the ship and we were late.

One last quick glimpse of Mendenhall Glacier.

It was a wonderful tour 

and I loved being out with the whales

in the evening hours.  

Even the whale snot was fun.