Monday, August 6, 2018

I Saw A Puffin!

 Dean and I are in Cooper Landing, Alaska, staying in a rental house with Rob, Chenlu, Carly, Lettie and Levi. We are having a lovely time. Yesterday we cruised Resurrection Bay.
The Orca Song was our boat. We were on the top deck, covered from the wind, with perfect views of all we passed. Our captain, Kaylee, was not only wise in the ways of maneuvering boats, she also knew all about wild life and their habits. 

Although there were no whales, there were


Eagles, 

Otters, 

and Puffins, oh my!

I learned that sea otters can dive down 300 feet and hold their breath for 15 minutes.
Puffins have very dense bones and tend to overeat, meaning when they take off flying, they have to flap their wings three times faster than the soaring seagulls.



Some of us didn't make it past the first few minutes of the cruise and slept the rest of the way.


The little white dots are mountain goats. With independent operating toes on their hooves, the dams are able to climb these high cliffs to give birth far away from predators. Once the kids can climb and winter comes, the families move to lower pastures.

Rock full of cormorants 

Sealions resting on the rocks. They are night hunters so they sleep in the day.


~ and the Misty Mountains of Middle Earth. 

Family on the boat: Rob, Levi, Chenlu, Carly, Lettie, Susan, Dean. 

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