{"id":8091,"date":"2011-08-11T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=8091"},"modified":"2011-08-07T16:36:41","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T20:36:41","slug":"alaska-whale-watching-juneau-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/8091","title":{"rendered":"Alaska: Whale Watching, Juneau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I said yesterday, Juneau was probably one of the most amazing days of our entire vacation. The second part of our excursion with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stepintoalaska.com\/\">Gastineau Guiding<\/a>, was whale watching. We saw that most of the excursions guaranteed you would see a whale on your tour, or they would give you $100, which I thought was nice. <\/p>\n<p>What I didn&#8217;t realize was that this meant we would see a LOT of whales.<\/p>\n<p>It was, quite honestly, astonishing.<\/p>\n<p>Before we even got on the boat we were seeing bald eagles.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/5991069198\/\" title=\"Whale_Watching_0001 by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6010\/5991069198_1e6936b98e.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Whale_Watching_0001\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/5991070874\/\" title=\"Whale_Watching_0007 by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6143\/5991070874_b7364ac0f0.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Whale_Watching_0007\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have to admit that bald eagles aren&#8217;t my favorite bird, but seeing them up close was impressive.<\/p>\n<p>We saw Harbor Seals sunning themselves on rocks:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/6003539105\/\" title=\"Whale_Watching_0090 by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6148\/6003539105_860fbc2760.jpg?resize=500%2C125\" width=\"500\" height=\"125\" alt=\"Whale_Watching_0090\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/5990514537\/\" title=\"Whale_Watching_0082 by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6002\/5990514537_55aff02eb6.jpg?resize=500%2C300\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Whale_Watching_0082\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And we saw whales.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/5990521935\/\" title=\"Whale_Watching_0275 by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6144\/5990521935_1703e64e3e.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Whale_Watching_0275\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/5990516363\/\" title=\"Whale_Watching_0220 by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6121\/5990516363_830dd59067.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Whale_Watching_0220\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This baby whale kept launching himself into the air, again and again. It was so CUTE! (Yes, that&#8217;s right. Cute.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/5990526747\/\" title=\"Whale_Watching_0395 by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6026\/5990526747_e80ab71512.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Whale_Watching_0395\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/5990526185\/\" title=\"Whale_Watching_0403 by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6015\/5990526185_3c7484fdb1.jpg?resize=500%2C300\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Whale_Watching_0403\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We also saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alaskawhalefoundation.org\/bubbleNetFeeding\">bubble net feeding<\/a>, which was extraordinary.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/5990528161\/\" title=\"Whale_Watching_0119 by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6025\/5990528161_36e738abeb.jpg?resize=500%2C300\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Whale_Watching_0119\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/5990527543\/\" title=\"Whale_Watching_0370 by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6013\/5990527543_c725aeb567.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Whale_Watching_0370\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And of course, we saw them diving.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/5991082174\/\" title=\"Whale_Watching_0384 by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6126\/5991082174_fa29ebd397.jpg?resize=500%2C300\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Whale_Watching_0384\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/5990518349\/\" title=\"Whale_Watching_0278 by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6007\/5990518349_4afb9af76c.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Whale_Watching_0278\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/5990522969\/\" title=\"Whale_Watching_0361 by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6144\/5990522969_4db41f524d.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Whale_Watching_0361\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/5991074780\/\" title=\"Whale_Watching_0277 by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6026\/5991074780_0cc8a9ec26.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Whale_Watching_0277\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I said yesterday, Juneau was probably one of the most amazing days of our entire vacation. The second part of our excursion with Gastineau Guiding, was whale watching. We saw that most of the excursions guaranteed you would see a whale on your tour, or they would give you $100, which I thought was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1059,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaska","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-26v","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}