It is with some sadness that we pack up for tomorrow’s drive. The Alaska trip isn’t over, but this part of it is. The calendar says it’s time to go. The weather says it’s time to go. With low temperatures in the forties, touching on lows in the thirties, we want to stay ahead of the weather. When you look at our trip map, it may not look like we’re going, because to leave this part of Alaska, we first have to drive north for 250 miles but really, we’re on our way.
In the meantime, here are some boats.
Including some featured in television’s Deadliest Catch.
After that brutal crabbing season out of Dutch Harbor in the winter, the boats come down to Valdez for the summer and tender salmon from the fishing boats out in the sound to the processing centers on the docks in town.
A Dall’s porpoise making a splash.
Another humpback whale tail.
A whale blow-hole. Here, the whale is moving right to left with the small dorsal fin just beginning to clear the water. The head is underwater. The blow-hole is well behind the head.
And here, the whale is moving left to right, with the dorsal just coming out of the water and the head under.
The head doesn’t have to clear the surface for the whale to come up and breath, just the blow-hole, and then the rest of the body follows.
And an iceberg.
4,396 miles to Sandpipers.
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