Location: Inian Islands, Icy Strait, southeast Alaska The Inian Islands are loaded with sea otters. ย Local residents in nearby Elfin Cove tell me that sea otters were re-introduced to this area in the mid 1980’s with animals transplanted from other areas. ย The original population was of course wiped out by hunters and fur traders […]
Read MoreA sea lion felt me today. – Lee A close encounter of the Sea lion kind !!!! ย – Rob drysuit trouble!!5 gallons in the suit yesterday, only a 1/2 gallon this morning and one very dry very amazing dive on the wall of LE ! It surly lives up to its name !! – Eduardo […]
Read MoreLocation: Inian Islands, Icy Strait, southeast Alaska Fire at sea but no, it definitely wasn’t on the Nautilus Explorer!! ย Dive day #1 of our last Alaska trip of the season saw us at anchor in the Inian Islands ย – one of our favourite sites in southeast Alaska. ย Sure, the scuba diving is fantastic here but […]
Read MoreJim – My highlight was the Transpac dive followed closely by the jelly fish dive and a close third was the Salmon snorkel – The amazing food fits in there somewhere too! Steve – There wasn’t a highlight for me – the whole weeks was full of surprises – however if I had to choose, […]
Read MoreI loved the humpback whales. ย We saw 2 stellar sealions playing with a humpback whale. ย ย And I liked the shopping onboard today. ย ย Anne had an encounter with a stellar sealion of the 3rd kind. ย Roxanne Second dive today was great conditions, great visiblity, very little current – a little chilly – but lots to see. […]
Read MoreEric – Susan’s Hooters was a challenging dive to say the least…but thats not a bad thing. Prolific life: I saw a cool little decorator crab that I would have never seen had he not been plucking stuff out of the water. ย The Zodiac tour was great too…I saw several sea otters – Super cute! […]
Read MoreScott P. – Jumping Salmon everywhere! Dan & Roxanne – Chinooks, Pinks, by the thousands eagerly waiting their turn to swim upsteam for the last time. Mark – Snorkeling in drysuits at the mouth of the river surrounded by Salmon, occasionally poking your head up looking for bears! ย What a day, some things you can […]
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