This year dad got invited to go on the Whalefest Cruise to talk about birds so Rowan and I got to tag along.
We needed to be down to Crescent harbor by about 8am so I was out of bed about 7:15am. After doing somethings around the house dad got up and we headed down to the harbor.
There was frost on the ground but the sun was out so the frost that was in the sun was melting.
After we were under way on the boat, we went through the Channel which was pretty quite when it came to birds. We then headed out, went through Crow pass, and headed over to Kruzof. We went by Fred’s creek, we watched some whales, they lunge feed a couple of times, while I was watching the whales I looked over at the beach using my binoculars and saw three deer on the beach I got a couple of photos of them then went back to watching the whales.
After we had watched the whales for a bit, and they started to move away, we heard that there was a bit of herring spawning happening up by Shoal’s point, so we head up that way.
It was very calm there was just a tiny bit of swell on our way to Shoal’s point but that was it. It was also a bit breezy out there but it wasn’t bad.
On our way to Shoal’s point I noticed a couple of Harbor porpoises but they didn’t stay up long enough for me to get any photos of them. Once we got to Shoal’s point, Low island area we saw big raft of Sealions and in amongst the Steller’s sealions I saw a California sealion. I got some photos of it and took so photos of some birds that were in the area. We hung out there in that area for a bit longer then we started back towards town. As we started back I saw several harbor porpoises and was able to get some photos of them.
We went back on the outside of Crow island. On the way back I stayed in the beck and took photos the birds I saw, and one group of birds I got photos of were a couple of Ancient murrelets. I had never seen them before so I was glad I was able to get photos of them.
We got back to the harbor and headed home. 
A sea otter with was looks like might be a chunk of phome 
California sealion
Harbor porpoises
Lunge feeding Humpback whales 
Sitka black-tailed deer on the beach of Kruzof
Ancient murrelets flying
