Capturing the Moment

This post will be like my ' year in reviews ' but instead will feature one season of running trips up in Alaska's Inside Passage and all the 'best of' highlights of the season. Best Ice Encounter : Top Left- Huge calving events at Dawes Glacier   Top Right- Ice sculptures stranded on the rocky shoreline at the Le Conte Ice Garden     Bottom Left- Standing inside a cave under a glacier made entirely of dense glacial ice  Bottom Right- Skiffing into a lake of ice at Baird Glacier Read about these events here: Witnessing a Calving Glacier with video , Le Conte Ice Gardens , Skiffing into an Ice Lake ,     Mendenhall Ice Caves   Best Polar Plunges : Left - Family from Savannah about to feel water slightly colder than their normal 85 degrees   Right - My crewmate Shannon took this picture at the perfect time capturing my backflip on the second deck in front of Dawes Glacier. You can read about it here: Polar Plunge...

This is something I get to share with people every day during the winter out here in Maui. Well, this exact thing of a whale breaching out of the water is a bit rarer site than that, but getting to see humpback whales is an every day sighting. This is a baby humpback, probably only a few weeks old, launching itself out of the water only 80 or so yards in front of our boat. By the time I snapped this picture the guests on board were locked and focused on this whale as you can tell. Pretty easy to wake up excited in the morning...