Gastineau Guiding Captain Annette Smith recently captured this heart-wrenching photo of an injured Steller sea lion at Little Island in Favorite Channel just north of Juneau. “I called NOAA and reported it,” Annette said. ” Don’t know what, if anything they did, or
Southeast Alaska’s summer cruise ship season may be winding down for 2015, but the humpback whales’ bubblenet feeding behavior and acrobatic antics just keep going, going, going. Most of the breeching, pectoral flipper slapping, tail lobbing, peduncle slaps and spyhopping appear to be the
I spent the last three years in the midst of humpback whales, mesmerized while watching them feed, play and sleep throughout the waterways of Alaska’s Inside Passage. This year, five cows migrated from Hawaii to Southeast Alaska with calves in tow, more than I have ever seen.
One again I had fun sharing Alaska’s mystery and beauty with my cruise ship guests these last two weeks. I always feel like I have new friends by the end of each adventure. As a courtesy for my Gastineau Guiding guests, I post
Zip lining, like sky diving, has never been high on my bucket list of adventures. I just didn’t see the attraction of dangling from a cable and whizzing above, or through, trees at 35 MPH. Rather than a bird’s-eye view of
Visitors must be patient if they want to see wildlife in Juneau in the summer. On multi-ship days, with thousands of people in town, most wildlife high-tail deep into the forests or high up the mountain of the Tongass National Forest. That said, in July, one is
One again I had fun sharing Alaska’s mystery and beauty with my cruise ship guests these last two weeks. I always feel like I have new friends by the end of each adventure. As a courtesy for my Gastineau Guiding guests, I post
Naturalist guides are generally not highly paid, therefore I smirk when I hear it said that naturalists are “paid in moments.” There are times, however, I have to agree. I feel fortunate when wildlife reveals itself to me, even when I don’t capture the moment with my camera. Every now
The chum and coho salmon are arriving at Salmon Creek and the spawning and feeding frenzy has the usually placid creek boiling and roiling as the salmon navigate the shallows. As noted in the Juneau Empire, “their dorsal fins cutting the surface like those of tiny sharks.” Yes,
One again I had fun sharing Alaska’s mystery and beauty with my cruise ship guests these last two weeks. I always feel like I have new friends by the end of each adventure. As a courtesy for my Gastineau Guiding guests, I post