It's a month after I took this trip, but here is the recap finally!
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| The Tustumena, the ferry |
I decided to take this trip by myself, which I was not too concerned about. When I am shooting, other people are a distraction to me. It would have been fun to have another person there to chat with, but it was fine. I hadn't counted on the boat being as tiny as it was, nor the other "exciting" things that happened!
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| Land's End Resort |
First of all, we were waiting for a party of 8. The party made us late, and only 5 of the people showed up after making the rest of wait. They ended up being grumpy, hardly participating at all, and 3 of them never got up from their seats, preferring to play on their phones instead!
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| A view out my window of the waves crashing along the boat! |
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In the stress of getting the latecomers on, the deckhand helping out (who I knew) fell into the harbor, and so we had a different deckhand on board than was planned! 30 minutes after we were supposed to get started, we finally left the harbor!
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| Cormorants and a gull at 60 Foot Rock |
I could tell as soon as we got out of the harbor that it was a bit choppy out in the Bay. Sure enough, there had been a storm in the Gulf of Alaska 3 days before, and it was just making its way into the Bay. So, a small boat + big waves = unsteady shooting conditions. We made our way to 60 Foot Rock first, where we came across the only sea otter I managed to get some photos of.
We departed and headed into Sadie Cove for a while. It was much calmer in there, but much less that I was interested in shooting. We spent a good deal of time in the Cove, stopping for 3 bald eagles way up in the trees and on the cliffs.
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| Sadie Cove |
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| It's always gorgeous across the Bay. |
After a while, we finally made our way to Gull Island and all the birds to be found there: Gulls, puffins,
cormorants and
murres.
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| Poot's Peak and the beautiful greenish ocean water |
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| Birds everywhere. |
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| Waves crashing onto the rocks created a temporary waterfall! |
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| Murres |
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| Murre | |
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| Love the color of the water! |
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| End of the Spit from Gull Island |
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| Puffin! |
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| Homer hillside |
After what I considered too little time at Gull Island, we turned back toward the Spit for our return journey!
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| Back in the harbor! |
I'm pleased with the photos I ended up with, and the trip was definitely memorable!
Have you ever been over to Seldovia? I went about 5 years ago, and the water taxi/ferry took us by Gull Island for a few photos. It was really neat. We liked Seldovia too. We only went for a few hours.
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