Couple more Whale Project shots.
This shot taken about 25 miles northwest of Juneau from a boat in Lynn Fjord. Juneau is one of only two state capitals which are not reachable by road from the “Lower 48” or the “Old Country” as Alaskans sometimes call the contiguous states. The other capital is Honolulu, of course. The Juneau road system runs 40 miles northwest of Juneau along the Lynn Fjord and then abruptly ends. It runs southeast for 7 miles and then abruptly ends. To the west is the Pacific Ocean and to the east, the Coastal Mountains.
Humpbacks bubble net feeding off Pavlov Harbor, SE Alaska. The pleats under the whales’ lower jaws allow for great expansion of the of the gullets to allow sea water to rush in along with krill or herring or needlefish, whatever the prey, In this shot this expansion, like an inflated balloon, is visible just under the surface on the whale to the right. This volume of water will then be expelled through the baleen, which will filter out the prey. The baleen is visible hanging from the upper jaw.
This shot will not be of particular interest for those who have not visited Juneau but it’s included because it shows the whale sculpture site in a pool to the lower left near where a bridge runs across to Douglas Island. It also shows the half-mile long “Sea Walk” along the coast of the fjord from downtown Juneau (off the upper right of the photo) to the whale site and the SeaWalk’s crossing over a proposed artificial island.
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