Mammals:
Humpback whales
Stellar sea lions
Harbor seals
Sea otters
Lastly, the captain took us to a spot where a glacier feeds into the sea. This particular one is called the Aialik Glacier. What you see from ocean level is a massive wall of blueish-colored
ice . It doesn't exactly look like ice as much as old frozen snow, which, come to think of it, is what it is. It also resembles, perhaps, a mass of blue styrofoam with a very irregular surface.
We did see and hear a little bit of the "calving" these glaciers are famous for. You first hear a loud explosion or deep rumble like thunder, and then a piece of the glacier falls off and tumbles into the water. These are old glaciers , but they're active old glaciers.
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