These pictures are somewhat out of the order from which they were taken and and from the events described in the postings.The first picture shows the edge of a glacier, we saw on our boat trip out of Valdez. You can get an idea of the size of the glacier from the excursion boat floating in front of it.
The next picture show seals on an iceberg, floating next to the glacier. Seals are commonly seen here on almost anything floating out in the water, such as buoys and icebergs.
The next picture is of a black bear (that is really brown, but they are called black bears). Black bears are distinguished from grizzly bears by the absence of a hump.
The ocean picture is of a typical fjord, as seen from a boat. These are beautiful, often the cliffs soar up to snow- or glacier-covered mountains. There are many glacier-fed waterfalls; a typical one is seen on the fjord in the picture.
The next picture is of a grizzly bear. See the hump. This bear is fishing for salmon, but he is a lazy bear, so several times we saw him eating the remains of salmon, that had been filleted by fishermen.
The next picture is of a scenic lighthouse, we saw on our boat trip to Juneau. Finally there is a whale's tail, as he or she dives. They usually reappear again in about six to ten minutes.
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