Alaska File #2

Monday

One of the first things I saw that morning was…wait for it…a whale!! I was freaking out, Dustin thought I had lost it completely. I was dropping the lens cap to the camera trying to get to the balcony..and so forth. So, I finally get it together to take a picture and, I left the camera on the wrong setting (manual for you camera freaks). Anywhoo, the lighting was horrible because I didn’t take the time to change the shutter speed, this was the result AFTER I did some stuff in Lightroom and this was the best I could do:

Of course that was the only time the whole trip where I got a tail shot. The next two are after I fixed the camera.

 

I am getting a little confused now, but I think we did this rock wall thing on Mondee. The same day we were going up to see Sawyer Glacier. There were so many things to do on deck including this rock wall, a sport court, and a huge chess board.

Our balcony turned out to be a good viewing spot for everything so we all joined forces and made one huge balcony!

On the way to the glacier we started to see icebergs everywhere! It was so exciting so we took 1000 pictures of them!

And the famous quote “Iceberg dead ahead” NEVER got old!

At first we thought we saw penguins. These little birds would pop up out of the water and glide away as fast as they could from the boat, but never fly. they were black and white but we were told there are no penguins, so we think maybe they were puffins? The captain noticed three bears along the shore, one of which Dustin made it back to our cabin to get the camera with the mega zoom lens to catch a picture.  So, all in one day we saw whales, puffins/penguins and bears. Although it got too icy for the ship to make it up to the glacier, I think this was one of my favorite days. It was so pretty up there!

Of course, we ended the night with dinner, a show and dancing.