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Sunday, July 31, 2011

VALDEZ ALASKA DAY 2 and 3

we went on the wildlife cruise
Saw seals, otters ,puffins, ice bergs, orcas black tail sitka deer, porpoise, eagles, silver salmon jumping and fishing boats
Where the Exxon Valdez went a ground
The next day we went the fish hcattery spawning area and a glacier calving

Ice berg from the Columbia Glacier
Steller sea lions

This is Meares Glacier it is 200 ft off the water and 7 mi long we are a mile away
It calved 3 mi of it  when we were there
The biggest the crew had seen the wave very large the captain had to maneuver the boat to  ride it out







fishing for pink salmon

black tail sitka deer

orcas mother and baby there 17 of them


the male

black bear

the dark is hundreds of pink slamon


oil  tanker at the end of the pipe line

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