- - Finally Spring~the whales have returned!
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amma
04-29-2009 09:35 AM
Beautiful pictures, thank you for sharing :D :D :D We enjoy going to the coast and watching their migration, they are amazing creatures :D
Mamagus
04-29-2009 09:38 AM
You get your west coast humpbacks about 6 weeks before the east cost humps arrive in out Newfoundland waters.
We have icebergs right now and the birds are starting to return to the islands. (They spend the winter at sea bobbing on the ocean).
We LOVE the whales.
MadQuilter
04-29-2009 09:48 AM
You are so lucky to view such a beautiful sight. Thanks for sharing.
Piedmont Quilter
04-29-2009 10:02 AM
Beautiful :!: :!: Thanks for the pictures. I too want to do the passage cruise one day. :D
PQ
Rebecca
Harmony
04-29-2009 11:44 AM
Awesome! So beautiful!
Knot Sew
04-29-2009 11:48 AM
I would love to see whales, I enjoy the pictures thank you :D
sewjoyce
04-29-2009 12:04 PM
Wow -- beautiful pictures!! (But it still looks really cold there!)
tlrnhi
04-29-2009 03:41 PM
Originally Posted by Alaskan lady
Originally Posted by tlrnhi
BEAUTIFUL!!! I love the whales!!!
I used to work on a dinner cruise ship in Hawaii. Once in a while I would work the lunch cruise and get to see the whales. They are SO awesome!! Had a couple of them one day just swimming under and around the ship. Had to shut the engines down for about an hour until they were done "playing" and left. Somewhere I have some pictures of them. One layed on it's side and swam right next to the boat. Was too cool!!
Been there and done that with shutting down the engines and drifting.
The tourists would get mad if the cruise took longer than expected because of shutting the engines down. They would ask if there was something we could do to get the whales to leave. I would usually respond with....Oh, we would pick the most obnoxious customer and toss them in. lol
Yea, I know, mean, huh?
There was always a briefing that went on about the whales. Do's and Don'ts as to what we could do and couldn't do and it was always told that if the whale approached, we HAD to shut the engines down. Some people just don't listen.......
sewhappy57
04-29-2009 03:48 PM
WOW!
What great pictures! I too am a whale lover. Would love to take a whale watching trip. WE could do a swap, I have a place on the Kenai and in Anchorage if you get this way. He He!
sandpat
04-29-2009 03:51 PM
You are sooo incredibly lucky to live in a place where you can see such beautiful things...like right outside your door!!! Thanks for showing them...DH & I will take the Inside Passage cruise on day! :lol:
