This is a picture of a foggy morning of Chatham Strait.  From all of our reading, we expected every day in Alaska to be like this.  We have been really lucky to have so many blue skies.

The Captain took us into Red Bluff Inlet.  Here he is showing off his skills by nosing the boat into a water fall.  Because of the spring melt the waterfalls are very dramatic.  The guy in the red jacket is the officer assigned to watching the passengers when we are allowed on the bow.  He has orders not to let anyone reenact the 'King of the World' scene from Titanic.

To keep us amused on a foggy day, we had a brunch instead of lunch.  Here is Noreen pouring the Mimosas!

We passed this Stellar Sea Lion haul out on Brothers Island.  These sea lions are not birthing pups so we were able to get really close to them.  A number of them swam out to check out the boat.  We even saw a group of them 'rafting'.  They form a tight group called a raft when they are swimming in open waters.

Karen got this picture of humpback whale in Frederick Sound.  The Captain zigzagged around most of the afternoon to be sure we would have an opportunity to see more whales.  The line through the picture is a rope on the ship.  You can see some notches in the flukes.