George Island, Elfin Cove & the Inian Islands
Yellowstone. This looks just like Yellowstone. This was a comment overheard on the bow of our ship yesterday morning as we watched a group of cooperative feeding humpback whales. The plumes of breath rolling from the blow holes and hanging in the air obviously reminded this viewer of the geysers periodically erupting in Yellowstone National Park. Some of us have not yet visited Yellowstone. We may get there some day, see a geyser shoot skyward and say humm, that looks just like the blow from a humpback whale.
Today while circumnavigating George Island one guest remarked that this reminded them of the coast of Maine. Evergreens precariously perched upon headlands with sheer granite cliffs ending in kelp beds that gently undulate with the swell. We are comparing our sightings and encounters to previous sights, sounds and smells. We are building a sensory library.
Much of what we are seeing will be hard to compare to any prior life experiences. How would you describe this image of a half wet and half dry Steller sea lion? Would you say it looks like it was dipped in dark chocolate? Or perhaps that it looks like it is wearing trousers on all four flippers? If it were to wear trousers, they would have to be the most flexible trousers ever made, as we watched these animals swim about our Zodiacs, seemingly turning themselves inside out and having more fun than a barrel of monkeys.
When you saw the kelp floating in the water, as well as stranded on the beach, what did it remind you of? Was it a tangled mass of decaying algae, or was it a potential toy, ripe for testing out as a jump rope? The second picture can speak of our success with the jumping rope approach.
We’ll help you visualize some of our experiences with these few paragraphs and pictures as well. Will you look at these images and compare them to something you have seen before? Or will you start to contemplate the unique possibilities of Southeast Alaska? A place where some of the most incredible landscapes and experiences amongst wildlife can be found, including Steller sea lions wearing flexible trousers.
Yellowstone. This looks just like Yellowstone. This was a comment overheard on the bow of our ship yesterday morning as we watched a group of cooperative feeding humpback whales. The plumes of breath rolling from the blow holes and hanging in the air obviously reminded this viewer of the geysers periodically erupting in Yellowstone National Park. Some of us have not yet visited Yellowstone. We may get there some day, see a geyser shoot skyward and say humm, that looks just like the blow from a humpback whale.
Today while circumnavigating George Island one guest remarked that this reminded them of the coast of Maine. Evergreens precariously perched upon headlands with sheer granite cliffs ending in kelp beds that gently undulate with the swell. We are comparing our sightings and encounters to previous sights, sounds and smells. We are building a sensory library.
Much of what we are seeing will be hard to compare to any prior life experiences. How would you describe this image of a half wet and half dry Steller sea lion? Would you say it looks like it was dipped in dark chocolate? Or perhaps that it looks like it is wearing trousers on all four flippers? If it were to wear trousers, they would have to be the most flexible trousers ever made, as we watched these animals swim about our Zodiacs, seemingly turning themselves inside out and having more fun than a barrel of monkeys.
When you saw the kelp floating in the water, as well as stranded on the beach, what did it remind you of? Was it a tangled mass of decaying algae, or was it a potential toy, ripe for testing out as a jump rope? The second picture can speak of our success with the jumping rope approach.
We’ll help you visualize some of our experiences with these few paragraphs and pictures as well. Will you look at these images and compare them to something you have seen before? Or will you start to contemplate the unique possibilities of Southeast Alaska? A place where some of the most incredible landscapes and experiences amongst wildlife can be found, including Steller sea lions wearing flexible trousers.
