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Day 230: Icy Straight, part 8

Saturday, September 6, 2014

Details of a Whale slap! We were so close that most of these I had to reduce in size: a 100% crop wouldn’t fit on the screen! *** *** *** *** *** *** ~Curtis, Whalin’ in Alaska! {!-{>

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Day 229: Icy Straight, part 7

Saturday, September 6, 2014

These aren’t particularly good photos, but they do show how close we were and some of the activity. A closeup of the photo above. *** Another detail.  Note the fin is tagged! *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ~Curtis, Whalin’ in Alaska! {!-{>

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Day 228: Icy Straight, part 6

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

(Resized because it was so close that even reduced for my blog it wouldn’t all fit on the screen!) ~Curtis, Whalin’ in Alaska! {!-{>

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Day 227: Icy Straight, part 5

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

* ** **** ~Curtis, Whalin’ in Alaska! {!-{>

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Day 226: Icy Straight, part 4

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

* ** *** **** *** ** * * ~Curtis, Whalin’ in Alaska! {!-{>

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Day 225: Icy Straight, part 3

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

* ** *** **** ***** **** *** ** Bloop! ~Curtis, Whalin’ in Alaska! {!-{>

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Day 224: Icy Straight, part 2

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

They only breached for a short while when we first got there. *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ~Curtis, Whalin’ in Alaska! {!-{>

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Day 223: Icy Straight, part 1

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Today was a Good Day.  No other way to put it.  We got off the ship in Icy Straight. This small town had a good sized canning plant.  It is now a museum and shops. We had to tender in.  There isn’t a dock big enough for the Amsterdam.  I think one of these lifeboat/tenders […]

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Day 222: Up Tracy Arm! Part 2

Thursday, August 28, 2014

Later in the day we saw a few other things than a glacier and a couple of bears… Another cruise ship! A whale drifted by the side of the ship.  That’s his back. There is the rest of…his tail… There is another one! Where?  Way, way out there.  You get used to spotting the blow […]

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Day 221: Up Tracy Arm! Part 1

Thursday, August 28, 2014

The next day of the cruise we headed up Tracy Arm, a 20 some mile long fjord up to Sawyer Glacier! “What do you mean, inside down?  It was the right way in the camera…” It was a foggy morning.  Apparently we missed a bunch of whales by not being up at 4:30am…althought the Dailylife […]

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