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Humpback Whale Tail, North Pass, Alaska-Image #2920

Humpback Whale Tail, North Pass, Alaska-Image #2920

My friends, Rich and Lori, invited my wife and I on a whale watching tour during their stay in Juneau. They hired one of my favorite whale captains, Jayleen Beedle. We headed out last Sunday evening, July 12th, for a four hour tour. The whales were spotty, with maybe six individual humpbacks ...
Humpback Whale, Pt Retreat Lighthouse, Juneau, Alaska-Image #2919

Humpback Whale, Pt Retreat Lighthouse, Juneau, Alaska-Image #2919

Alaska’s humpback whales returned to Juneau from their annual migration from Hawaii sometime in May. This single whale is diving off the northern end of Admiralty Island with the Pt. Retreat Lighthouse in the background. During the fireweed season the lighthouse is surrounded by fireweed, and ...
White Pass and Yukon Route, Skagway, Alaska – Image #2918

White Pass and Yukon Route, Skagway, Alaska – Image #2918

The White Pass and Yukon Route narrow gauge railroad links the port of Skagway with Whitehorse, the capital of the Yukon in Canada. The railroad has no direct connection to any other railroad and is one of Alaska’s most popular tourist attractions. I like photographing the train in early June ...
Humpback Whales, Juneau, Alaska – Image #2917

Humpback Whales, Juneau, Alaska – Image #2917

Humpback whale bubble-netting groups arrived in Juneau waters last week. There are two main groups of whales with a combined total of some 20 individuals. These two whales surfaced after finishing a bubble-net. Humpbacks are mammals that surface to breathe air and their lungs are the size of ...
Hummingbirds, Gull Cove Lodge, AK – Image #2916

Hummingbirds, Gull Cove Lodge, AK – Image #2916

Carly Lehnhart waits patiently for hummingbirds to come to the feeder. Our friends, Paul, Tami, Rick and Alice at Gull Cove Lodge have four hummingbird feeders sitting on the handrail on the lodge’s front porch deck. The hummers were so ravenous that the little thumb-sizes birds would flock ...
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“As a kid in Buffalo, New York, I always wondered what it would be like to encounter a whale,” says Mark Kelley. Learn more about Mark…