Hi! This is Linda today. Today was the day of our tour of the Kenai Fjords National Park. It was an 8 hour cruise. No, it wasn't a three hour cruise that ended in a shipwreck on a deserted isle like Gilligan and friends. We saw a sea otter, several harbor seals on rocks, bald eagles, puffins, a humpback whale, 5 or 6 pods (families) of orcas, a humpback whale, and several Dahl's porpoises. They actually stayed with our boat and played for quite a while. We were told that it was a perfect day since we saw everything there was to see and the weather was good.

We also got to see and hear a glacier making it's sounds as well as calving. That is when a piece of it falls into the ocean.

Once again we got to eat. Our all-you-can-eat buffet included prime rib, salmon, rice pilaf, lettuce salad with mandarin oranges and sour dough bread. That was later than planned since we were busy watching animals at 2 when we were supposed to have it. Then later we had (once again) all-you-can-eat dessert. It included brownies, carrot cake, sugar-free jello, cheese cake and fruit. Of course there was coffee, tea, pop, and water to drink. Actually there were other things to drink, but we didn't know what they were, so we chose not to imbibe in them. They weren't our type of drinks.

The steller sea lions were in their rookery and it is calving season for them. Last night at the sea life center they had a live feed of them where we saw them today and it too was very interesting.

We also saw other birds and some of them were nesting literally in rocks on a cliff. There was a park ranger on our boat and she was very informative. She told us that only 1/4 of mountain goats reach adulthood. Their main predator is their habitat. In other words they just fall. Looking at them, it is no wonder! We also saw a family of them today. Some things were difficult to capture in pictures because they were so quick or far away.

Tomorrow it will be off to Kenai by way of Exit Glacier. We are told you can drive and walk to it. We'll be in Kenai two nights since we will go to Homer from there and return. A lot of places in Alaska have to be visited by going back and forth over the same road. Have a nice day and please do comment so that we know someone is actually reading this!