Today, the entire crew of ten did a five-hour cruise of Resurrection Bay with a stop on Fox Island for a soup and salad lunch. The lunch was so good. I tried the Alaskan salmon chowder, and it was absolutely incredible.

It was very hard to get any really good pictures from the boat, as the water was a bit choppy, but I managed to get a few. Some of them are pretty far off, even with my medium long lens. I couldn’t even try to use the biggest lens I have. That lens requires a tripod, as it is a long, prime lens. So, I will post what I did get.

We saw sea lions, harbor seals, puffins, black-legged kittiwakes, a bald eagle, and some other wildlife. There was even a whale out there, but I didn’t see him. Bummer!

It rained a great portion of the day, but that didn’t stop us from getting outside on the boat to really see the wildlife Hey, this is a once-in-a-lifetime trip for us. Ya’ can’t stop because of the rain — because it rains a lot.

It was an amazing day, though.

You have to zoom in a lot, but the picture that has a bunch of birds on the rocks — all those birds are kittywakes, I believe. There is one horned puffin at the very top, but they are so far off, it’s hard to see them. I still have hopes of photographing a puffin up close. But for now, this is what I have! On the bank are harbor seals.

Mike and I went out for an incredible halibut dinner at one of the local restaurants and then went back to Tramper.

I had gotten so chilled I couldn’t get warm, so I piled up on the bed in a sleeping bag, got warm, and with my belly full, promptly went to sleep by 8:30 p.m. I think the cold, rainy sea air and the Dramamine I took were partly responsible, but I slept hard — all night.