We are home again and I wanted to tell you a little about our cruising experience. The time spent with family was amazing – possibly made even more enjoyable because of the famine of visits over the past two years. Family was top priority but the second to top the list of highlights was the abundance of wildlife sightings. This was in sharp contrast to the same cruise that Lyle and I took in May some five years ago. On that cruise we saw ...well, maybe it was a brown bear dozing on the ice or maybe it was just a rock.
This year, our daughter who was on a
constant lookout spotted, whales (both humpback and orca), seals, sea otters,
dolphins and porpoises. Jen and her family spotted the an orca whale as it surfaced right beside our balcony. The other excitement was a bald eagle
that was perched on a piece of ice floating beside the ship. This was in
Glacier Bay as the ship was idling and so the icy perch stayed beside the ship
for some time. Although we had seen most of these animals in zoos and
aquariums, Jen explained to us that it was quite different seeing them in the
wild.
Now you might wonder how I could be excited
by these “sightings”. To be perfectly honest, I saw none of the creatures I
have just listed – although I think I might have seen the piece of ice where
the bald eagle might have been. My excitement and wonder was in hearing the
exclamations and joy in the voices of my family. Those were my true Alaskan
sightings.
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