We took a bus down to Seward for the final days of our land tour, and to meet the cruise ship! We stopped at a museum in Anchorage, but didn't have much time to really look around. We ate lunch and mostly looked at the dog sled displays. The flowers in Alaska are really bright and beautiful... we were surprised, but with all the sunlight, we shouldn't have been!
The first glimpse of our ship!
And our ship for the Kenai Fjords Boat Tour that we would take before boarding the cruise ship!
We had, again, excellent weather when we needed it! It was rainy during the morning, but by the time we were out on the boat, blue skies emerged. We were very lucky! We were able to see lots of creatures again... starting with a mountain goat!
I believe this is Bear Glacier:
Our first whale sighting! A humpback!
A sea otter!
one of two eagles we saw that day
harbor seals
I may remember this incorrectly, but I think they told us that the black line was still evidence of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989.
fishing boats near the barrier islands
stellar sea lions
thick-billed murre
thick-billed murre, horned puffins and mew gull
thick-billed murre, horned puffins and mew gull 
stellar sea lion yawning - or laughing? =)
orca!
and calf
We saw some dall's porpoises, too, which look similar to but smaller than the orcas - this is still an orca (we didn't get good pictures of the dall's porpoises)
and some video of an orca Aialik Glacier
seals sunning on the ice
seals sunning on the ice
glacier calving
tufted puffins
stellar sea lions
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