This morning we cruised among the Inian Islands in Zodiacs. We found lively Steller sea lions, an abundance of bald eagles, tufted puffins, and a snoozing sea otter. At Fox Creek, we stretched our legs and walked through a seaside meadow and a mossy forest environment. As National Geographic Venture cruised east past Point Adolphus in the late afternoon, we saw a pod of killer whales and a couple of humpback whales.
- Daily Expedition Reports
- 18 May 2022
Inian Islands and Fox Creek, 5/18/2022, National Geographic Venture
- Aboard the National Geographic Venture
- Alaska
Berit Solstad, Naturalist
Berit grew up on the rocky shores of Marblehead, Massachusetts. In the tidal cove behind her family’s home she found horseshoe crabs, eels, and feeding frenzies of fishes and birds. Low tides exposed clam flats, crabs, mussels, and snails. She explor...
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