Whales

Just sitting and having a bite to eat when the Humpbacks came out to welcome us to Alaska.  Didn't have time to install the telephoto lens, so the photos don't do justice to the experience.

We saw them coming out of Tracy Arm Fjord.  This is one of the advertised highlights of the cruise (along with Juneau and Skagway), and while it was interesting, it is not the reason to take this cruise, which we have thoroughly enjoyed.

 

To be fair, maybe we would have felt differently if we had seen it like this: