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More Humpbacks Breaching

Airship Goes to Alaska

Today we left Pybus Bay and headed over to anchor in the Tracy Arm anchorage so we'd be ready to head for the glaciers in the morning. The weather was gray and rainy, and just outside of Windham Bay we noticed some dark vertical things and splashes in the distance. More breaching humpbacks? Let's head over there!

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As we got a little closer we realized that only some of what we were seeing were breaches. The other vertical dark things sticking out of the water were the enormous pectoral fins of a humpback before big splashy fin slaps:

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And, more breaches. This time I was ready(ish):

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Pretty freaking cool, right?

We got to our little cove and this intensely blue iceberg greeted us near the entrance.

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