The next day we took a day cruise through the Kenai Fjords.

Our first wild life spotting was a Harbor Seal. The whole boat tipped to one side as everyone on the boat needed a photo of this animal.

It was another particularly rainy and windy day. This is rich in his please don’t get me wet outfit. The weather this day was in the 50′s and I was a little cold despite the long johns I had on under my clothes.

We then came across some fantastic Humpback Whales that decided to give us a show. Showing us their fins, tails, and even breaching for us! This really made my heart pump anticipating where they would jump and the giant splash that followed.

We were fortunate enough to see the glaciers calve. This is when parts of the glacier start to fall off. There was a huge one that we had to hold onto the railing for, the wave from the piece of ice falling was rather large. We also found out that the glaciers are blue because it is the only color that we can see, the rest of the colors get stuck inside.

This was about as close as we were allowed to the Stellar Sea Lions. They are on the endangered list.

This is a Tufted Puffin. See his cute little mo-hawk?

I was very much looking forward to seeing the puffins. To my surprise, we found out that puffins are normally an all brown bird. They change colors and grow an extra beak just for mating season. Need to impress the ladies I guess!

Some Sea Gull looking things, I liked the little babies though.

The Common Murre looked like penguins when they stood up. These unique birds lay their eggs on the cliffs with no rocks below them. When the babies see all the adults flying they think that they can also fly. They end up jumping off of the cliff and plummeting to the water. This is where they will spend the majority of their lives and where they ultimately learn how to fly underwater.

We got off the boat at Fox Island for an all you can eat lunch of salmon and prime rib. We also got a half pound of King Crab!

This is the first Bald Eagle we encountered. He looks quite wet.

This Bald Eagle was standing on a dolphin right as we were pulling into the harbor. Beautiful!

To see photos from the rest of our trip please click here.

Alaska is quite a unique place to go for a honeymoon, or so we were told, a lot. We got such an amazing deal on our trip, we could not pass it up. We used miles that Rich had been storing up for many years now. And the total cost of our flight was $10.

Our trip started out on sort of a bad note, we missed our flight. But when we talked it out, it was not a big deal. Although there were tears involved. I hate having to be so emotional. We were going to originally be arriving in Anchorage around 9pm (midnight our time). So we were only planning on sleeping there. We got a flight the next morning and everything worked out perfectly. We rented a car and were off to Seward as originally planned.

It happened to be rainy and quite windy. Stepping out of the car on the side of the road to take a photo was a littler harder than we had imagined. I felt like the door was going to fly off of the rental car. The wind was so strong it was pushing us, we had to run back to the car against the wind. My hair pretty much tells the story.

On our drive we stopped at a little fishing spot. We didn’t know then why the water was so blue. Later we found out that this is water from a glacier. The runoff of the water picks up the silt found in the glaciers and makes the water very thick. Salmon can not even swim in this water because it is too thick.

To see photos from the rest of our trip please click here.