We made it to Alaska! Juneau to be exact! We traveled North for about 1 1/2 days and enjoyed exploring the ship. Everyone was excited to get off the boat and tour the city. Lauren felt fine when she woke up and we were all so happy!
We spent some time walking around the ship and enjoying the view. Since we had been sailing in the middle of the ocean all this time, we had not really seen a lot of mountains yet. It really was breathtaking.
The whole family signed up for the whale watching excursion today! We took a short bus ride and then got on a catamaran to head out into a canal to look for whales.
It was windy a lot, and at first it was chilly.
But the beauty was breathtaking. If you look really close you will see sea lions on the red and green thing (it's late...can't think of the name of it...lol) and 2 little sea lion heads next to it!
Everywhere you looked this is what you saw!
Then there was this. Killer whales, also known as Orcas. The driver of the boat spotted these about 3 miles out, but didn't say anything until we got up close. The individual commentating the tour said they only see Orcas about 10% of the time on these tours. You could tell the workers on the boat loved it and were very passionate about what they do.
See the big one in the back with the messed up fin...that is the daddy of the pack!
They were so close it was was so scary because they would disappear for several minutes and reappear again over and over. How do you know where they went? Can they be right under the boat? Who knows, but every time we lost them, we found them again. Everyone on the tour loved it!
We also saw several humpback whales. However, there were several boats around watching the whales when our boat was there too, so we did not get nearly as close to these whales. This one kept jumping out of the water and back in. Over and over again.
Eve must have been a little chilly? These 2 had a ton of fun this week.
Emma was awesome with all the cousins this week. Do you remember those older cousins you looked up to when you were a kid. Those cousins were the coolest ever.
Rae Ann too. Look at Addison looking at her! Nathan might be asleep next to Pat there...He was not the only one asleep.
Crazy Uncle Jeff was having fun.
We did a lot of this. All of us.
It was fun. We had a great time whale watching.
Sorry Mark. Had to do it. He was not the only one asleep on the ride back to shore.
If you were asleep, you missed these views. How could anyone fall asleep? Oh, and blue skies! It rains 270 days a year in Juneau. We had blue skies!
And you missed this little island.
And this. Beauty everywhere. I know I have said it over and over again, but it was so relaxing just to stare at the nature and beauty that surrounded us.
The whale watching was just the first part of the excursion. Next up was Mendenhall Glacier and Nugget Falls.
This. Beautiful. Loved the hike down to this waterfall....More to come on Part 2 of our excursion in Juneau.
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