Juneau, Thar She Blows

I boarded a bus to go out to catch a boat to watch the whales.  We drove through Juneau which looked like an interesting town.
It was all crowded below the mountains with town.
There were an amazing number of cars.
Mountains all around us.
State capitol over there somewhere.
And glaciers in the background.  Some of the people from the cruise took the glacier tours. 
They sounded interesting, but I wanted to see the whales.
Lots of trees in Juneau.
Lots of glaciers.
The high tide was in as we drove out to find the whales.
I knew we would have a successful trip when I saw that St. Peter was the name of our boat.
We went up the fjords to look for the whales.
The sea was choppy and the sky was blue.  This is a rain forest, but we had the sunniest of days.
i got a lot of photos of water, just missing the blows of the whales.
See? A millisecond ago there was blow.
And blow in the far distance.
And finally the back of a humpback whale.
Which way did he go?
There is blow out there somewhere.
And blow to the left. Or was it the right.
There was a lot of operator error involving my camera.  I pushed wrong buttons and basically messed up a bunch of pictures of whales.
Beautiful glacier photo.
And more glacier pictures.
Whale straight ahead.  But I missed the photo of it.
There were several boats chasing the same whales that afternoon.  It must be annoying to have boats gather around whenever they surface.
It was there, I missed it.
Way off to the left is a whale.  Trust me.  I think this one was Flame.
See?  A whale in the distant left.
And another picture of the back of the whale.  I guess that is the hump of the humpback.
She basked at the surface for a while.
And more. Basking in the afternoon sunshine.
Whale back.
The blow of the thar she blows.
She was basking for a while in the sunshine.
And more.  I kept taking pictures because I had missed the fluke about 2 other times and I was trying to get a photo of it.
But still resting at the surface.
A whale.

A whale.
And a whale.
There is the humpback whale back.  A wild whale.
Basking at the surface.  The most whale I saw.
The back of the whale.