The daily blog of a tourist visiting the USA: Day 6 Juneau, Alaska

The daily blog of a tourist visiting the USA: Day 6

Today we docked at Juneau, the capital city of Alaska. It was very chilly from the time we arrived and we went directly on the bus. We were going whale watching with a company called Allen Marine. The Allen Marine Company was operated by the Allen family for a very long time and they even made their own boats. The boats were very cool with three decks. It was freezing cold and very hard to take a picture in that crowded place. We were the first boat out on the water and so we would have a good chance of seeing some whales and score we saw an orca or killer whale. The killer whale was renamed ‘orca’ because people didn’t like using the word killer as a name for an animal. The killer name is on top of the food chain but just under man.

After some time we reached a place where there were many harbour seals and they were making such a horrible noise. But then we saw it. The whale we were looking for. The Humpback Whale. It even wheezed and there was some mist. So awesome. We even saw another pair of whales. A mother and son. The guys called her Flare because of some kind of sign on her tail. After some more watching of glaciers we re-docked at the port where we were picked and taken to the Mendenhall

Glacier.

The glacier looked amazing and there was even a waterfall. We first went to a visitor centre and then we hiked down to the lake and touched the refreshing water. There wasn’t much to see and we were picked up by 12:45 and we went directly to our boat.