Humpbacks and Otters and Seals OH MY!

Family vacation in the MacFadyen family rarely feels like your typical break from society. There's hardly ever any relaxing, being cold is a guarantee, and we are usually in a place where the only people we can talk to are each other. Begin, our most recent trip to Glacier Bay National Park in Southeast Alaska. Morning of day one we're setting up our collapsible kayaks and hitting the water, paddling for mere moments before our first seal pops its head out of the water just 100 meters from our boat. The rest of the day is spent paddling between spouts of humpback whales, for each pair we pass we hear more breathing ahead. GEE pops, what is this place you've taken us to!? A natural zoo? A whale reserve?! Six o'clock on the dot, my brother and I count 43 sea otters rafting up for supper time. Soon, we're chowing down ourselves, on mom's gourmet camping dinner of turkey and mashed potatoes. We see a tour boat float by in the distance, rooms for two thousand, and oblivious to the raft of otters before us and the bears we had just shoo'd from our camp. Then dad says: Well kids, when you were young, you'd see a tour boat like that and wish you were on it instead of camping out here. What do you think now?

I said: You got us pops, there's no place I'd rather be.

Southern Winds

Yes, there were icebergs.