It is a great privilege to be allowed to visit Guadalupe Island. On our most recent voyage out there, we were very fortunate to get some fantastic images of resident elephant seals using a long-distance telephoto lens during a rarely permitted shoreside visit. What made this visit all the more specia is the sad history […]
Read MoreLocation: Inian Islands, Icy Strait, southeast Alaska The Inian Islands are loaded with sea otters. 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. The original population was of course wiped out by hunters and fur traders […]
Read MoreLocation: Inian Islands, Icy Strait, southeast Alaska Fire at sea but no, it definitely wasn’t on the Nautilus Explorer!! Dive day #1 of our last Alaska trip of the season saw us at anchor in the Inian Islands – one of our favourite sites in southeast Alaska. 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. We saw 2 stellar sealions playing with a humpback whale. And I liked the shopping onboard today. Anne had an encounter with a stellar sealion of the 3rd kind. Roxanne Second dive today was great conditions, great visiblity, very little current – a little chilly – but lots to see. […]
Read MoreLocation: Inian Island, Icy Strait, southeast Alaska Interesting trip this last week with less diving than normal and a lot more inflatable and skiff excursions to watch, observe and photograph all the neat animals up here – humpback whales, bald eagles, stellar sealions, sea otters, puffins, cormorants, oyster catchers and even orca’s. It’s a private […]
Read MoreSaw lots of coral today all over the walls – orange, white, red, pink. There were also tons of nudibranchs. I got a picture today of a sea otter in the foreground, a whale spouting behind it and beautiful snowy mountains in the background. Where else can you see that. Robbie I saw a snail laying eggs in a circular […]
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