On a Lifelong Journey to Learn my Place
Flora:Â Many umbels are blooming, as are the fireweed and yarrow. Â Most other plants are pretty much done blooming. The red huckleberries are ripe, though they are not all that abundant. The deer heart are starting to die back. I saw some ripe raspberries on Etolin Street. Â We have one raspberry getting ripe in the backyard. … Read more
I had one tour this morning and went for a walk to Totem Park this evening. Â The tour was a Captain’s Choice, and we stopped at the Nadezhda Islands in Krestof Sound and returned through Nawkwasina Passage. Weather: Â Overcast with some light rain. Â This evening there were a few breaks in the clouds, but I … Read more
Today while on tour, we had the pleasure of watching a humpback whale breach multiple times over a relatively short period of time.  We had seen the whale near the entrance to Redoubt Bay and watched it there for a few minutes before moving south to view some Sea Otters at Fragrance Island.  While we were watching it the first time, it was behaving in a manner that seems typical for … Read more
I had two tours today with Allen Marine. Â Both of them were Sea Otter and Wildlife Quest tours, so we did not have any beach walks. Weather: Â It was overcast this morning, with some partial clearing in the afternoon. Â Winds seemed to be pretty calm. Â On the way back in to Jamestown Bay after the … Read more
Weather: Â Overcast with rain. Birds: Â This morning I saw a hummingbird at the foxglove flowers in the back yard. Â It hung around for awhile, but seemed to be camera shy and disappeared shortly after I went out to try and get a picture. Later in the day I saw a woodpecker (Hairy or Downy) in … Read more
After spending the better part of the day inside, I left for a walk in the late afternoon.  I went up to Indian River near the trail head then followed the river down to Totem Park.  The water was fairly high, so I could not walk the river, but I did try to stay near it. Weather:  There were only a couple of brief rain showers … Read more