From a harbor in Juneau, we walked to our whale watching excursion. The naturalist to the right leads us to the boat for the Orca Eco Tour.
Captain Larry of the Orca Odysea poses for a quick photo on board his boat.
The harbor is full of fishing boats that were so colorful against the Alaskan forest.
A fishing boat sails into the cool waters off Juneau.
A smaller whale watching boat gets really close to a whale as he dives and the tail comes up.
A whale feeds, showing the baleen at the top of his mouth.
The top of the whale is visible here as the whale opens his mouth to eat.
A whale on this side opening his mouth to fill it with water and krill.
The back of the whale's mouth and baleen is visible here as the whale feeds.
The water was rich with krill this day and the whales were feeding on them constantly.
The top of the whale is seen here as he feeds in Alaska near Juneau.
A humpback whale surfaces to eat krill in the water near Juneau.
A whale comes close to the boat for a look at us... note the baleen and the whale's eye at the top of the photo.
A humpback whale surfacing to eat. The whales eye is visible in the middle of the photo and the bottom of his mouth area is the ribbed area to the left.
The back of a whale as he surfaces for a moment. The blowhole is visible.
A closeup of a whale with its mouth open and flipper up.
A flipper on this humpback is covered with barnacles.
The baleen of this whale is visible as he feeds.
Gulp feeding by a humpback on krill in Alaskan waters.
A whales on his side.. mouth to the left and his eye directly above that. Take a close look at the red eye.
We were told you can identify whales by the markings on their fluke.
A whale breeches before a backdrop of beautiful mountains.
