Krill?? One of the naturalists scooped some water from Glacier Bay, put it under the microscope, and projected the image on a screen. We saw krill, very young clams, and other cool stuff.
We woke this morning in Glacier Bay National Park, right next to Johns Hopkins Glacier.
We had wonderful views of several glaciers and saw and heard some calving. Click here for a slide show of more glaciers. Use your browser's "back" arrow to return to the blog.
But we also saw some great wildlife. There were lots of harbor seals hauled out on the icebergs in front of the glaciers. We watched a couple of brown bears in a salmon stream, one of which was a master fisherman. I saw her (according to the park naturalist who came on board for this part of the trip it was a female) scoop up and eat two salmon within a short period of time. Then we watched several mountain goats climbing around on Gloomy Knob; Stellar sea lions hauled out on the rocks;
and a group of tufted puffins in the water below. 
Then we moved on and in two different spots saw a black wolf which we were able to watch for quite a while. What a treat. 
And just about everywhere we stopped we saw bald eagles. There were other birds as well such as parasitic jaegers, scoters, pelagic cormorants, and various gulls.
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