Wasn't able to run today. I woke up to find us docked in Juneau and we only had time to eat breakfast before heading ashore to do a whale watch and to tour the Mendenhall Glacier. I did do a lot of walking, though. The whale watch was pretty cool. We found a large pod of humpback whales doing what is called bubble net feeding. 12-15 whales huddle together and dive down into the water where they make a lot of bubbles. This confuses the small fish, who feel trapped by the bubbles and head for the surface. The whales come up underneath them with their mouths open and eat it all on their way up. What we see is a bunch of open whale mouths suddenly appearing in one big clump. What made it more interesting was the calf who was still trying to figure it all out and would just come flying up completely out of the water on his own somewhere nearby the rest of the group. It was a spectacular sight to see. Then we took a bus to Mendenhall Glacier. We went on a small 1 km hike to a large waterfall near the glacier. We didn't have much time to spend there because our bus had to come back to get us and take us back to Juneau. We ate lunch on the ship and then I walked around town for a while. Juneau has to be the smallest capital city in America, but it is also probably the prettiest.
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