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Jellyfish and spawning salmon

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Post date 2009-08-13
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By Nautilus Staff on August 13th, 2009 in Archive

Location: Secret location, Baranoff Island, southeast Alaska We have been seeing returning and spawning salmon everywhere!!! Salmon jumping out of the water as we cruise by. Salmon fry schooling in thick black clouds. Salmon swimming under the kayaks and salmon under the inflatable during shoreline tours. So I decided to launch our divers in a […]

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Guest Blog – Octopus Party – July 27/09

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Post date 2009-07-27
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By Nautilus Staff on July 27th, 2009 in Archive

Laura – The crew is fantastic and exceeded all my expectations and imagination of what a crew would be. My big wish when I came on Nautilus Explorer was to see a Wolf Eel and I was just blowwn away to see one so up close and personal. They really have big heads. I was […]

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Guest Blog – Jellyfish Central July 23 Part 2

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Post date 2009-07-23
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By Nautilus Staff on July 23rd, 2009 in Archive

Today was fun. I would have to say it was an Alaskan adventure in flip-flops. Although I would have to recommend not going to either the waterfall or the snow-cave in flip-flop. I had never expected that we would do something like the surreal jelly-fish dive. Millions of jellies in our face. Completely unexpected and […]

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Guest Blog 14 July 2009

By Nautilus Staff on July 14th, 2009 in Archive

Point Adolphus and Icy Strait, southeast Alaska I saw a wolf eel on a wall today. And when he left his spot he went phhhssssshhhhtt straight down. Howard I saw 3 orange peel nudibranchs in a row that were the size of footballs. My computer showed 42 degrees but Captain Mike doesn’t believe me (I figure 44 degrees […]

Tags bald eagles, Grizzly bear, grunt sculpin, humpback whales, Icy Strait, Lingcod, moon jellies, orange peel nudibranchs, Point Adolphus, puffin, sea otters, stellar sea lions, wolf eels

Guest Blog 9 July 2009

By Nautilus Staff on July 9th, 2009 in Archive

A huge sea of moon jellies in a gorgeous steep sided inlet in Alaska Oh yeah, it goes without saying that the scenery and weather has been superb so far on this trip. The highlight so far is a tie between swimming around the icebergs, watching bald eagles swoop down on unsuspecting salmon fry as we drifted past […]

Tags bald eagles, Baranof Island, Grizzly bear, lions mane jellies, moon jellies

Amazing, incredible numbers of jellies (jelly fish) everywhere

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Post date 2009-07-09
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By Nautilus Staff on July 9th, 2009 in Archive

Location: Baranoff Island, southeast Alaska Had a good start to this trip with nice diving at Meyers Chuck, a great iceberg day at Le Conte Bay and our first closeup grizzly bear sighting of the trip in an impossibly spectacular beautiful mountain fjord on the east side of Baranoff Island. Everything about this fjord was […]

Tags bald eagles, Baranof Island, Grizzly bear, Le Conte Bay, Meyers Chuck, moon jellies

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