Icy Straight Point, Alaska

Today we went on a marine wildlife and whale watching cruise (exceptional!) and then took a small detour into town and added a little nature tram at the end of the day! Brennen enjoys some "wildlife" before we head out on our whale watching cruise.

 There was just so much beauty all around.  If you love the beauty of nature, Alaska must be on your list of places to go. 

 Caught two fish playing around!

 First whale sighting.

 We were really lucky on our day and we probably saw 15 whales come up and we also saw a whale breech (jump up and splash back down on their back), which is pretty rare.  Of course, I missed that picture!

 This is what you are on the lookout for.  When you see the air spray, a whale will come up right after.

 We took the bus into the small Indian village, but that was pretty disappointing.  We we got to the drop off spot, we actually didn't get off the bus because there was a huge group of people waiting to go back and we thought we might never get back.  So we played on the beach for a while and then we decided to go on a nature tram later in the evening.

 Finding cool nature things...

 Our cruise ship from our little beach stop.

 The kids found little baby crabs on the beach.

 Tired kids after a long day!