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Cruising Yachtsman - Alaska, the Inside Passage
by Lisa Sonne
White icebergs with deeply luminous pockets of green and blue floated all around us—some were as tall as skyscrapers, others seemed like abstract sculptures carved by wind, or island dollops of frozen water. Baby seals practiced barking as their mothers looked on, occasionally sliding off the slippery bergs, then galumphing their way back up.
My husband Victor and I ...
Soaking Up Nature in the Sea of Cortez
by Janet Groene
"Whale at 10 o'clock!"
The message from the bridge crackled over the loudspeaker and the kids scrambled for the deck as if it was Christmas morning. The gifts waiting for them were nature's best: whale tails flashed in the sun and, moments later, porpoise filled the churning sea. A gray whale breached, stunning everyone to silence.
Michael, 7 ...
It's a fluke — and that's a good thing
by Ludmilla Alexander
You've seen the whales' water spouts off the Oregon coast. Now reach out and touch the big friendlies in the warm waters of their destination: the Sea of Cortés.
Standing on the deck of her vacation home in Oceanside, OR, Lynne Styles watches through binoculars for the telltale blowhole spray of migrating whales as they swim down the ...
The Sea of Cortez
by Bill Hirsch and Yvette Cardoza
Out there, hardly yards from our keel were hundreds and hundreds of saddleback dolphins, splashing and leaping and twisting in the rays of golden sunset light.
You’ve heard the phrase, “The water was alive.” Well, yes it was. It frothed and churned and bubbled. For a good twenty minutes.
Then we headed in for dinner and were literally settling ...