SEWARD SPOTLIGHT The MMT Blog / World Oceans Day Join Major Marine Tours in celebrating World Oceans Day on June 8th! On this day, people around the world come together to celebrate and protect our oceans. Healthy oceans are critical to a healthy planet. As a company that explores the incredible marine ecosystems and wildlife […]
CRUISE SPOTLIGHT The MMT Blog / How to Choose Your Cruise: Our Go-To Guide to Help You Pick Your Cruise Summer is here and we are so excited that our cruise season is in full swing. We are currently offering 3 cruise options, and over the next few weeks another 3 cruises will start running. […]
CRUISE SPOTLIGHT, WILDLIFE REPORT The MMT Blog / All About Orcas: Experience the Best Time to View Orcas on Our Orca Quest Cruise The peak season for orcas is almost here! From mid-May to mid-June several pods of resident orcas, and sometimes transient orcas, visit the waters of Kenai Fjords National Park. The resident orcas […]
SEWARD SPOTLIGHT The MMT Blog / Whale SENSE – Celebrating 10 Years of Responsible Whale Watching! Major Marine Tours has been a proud participant of Whale SENSE since 2017, and we are excited to announce that we have completed our training again for the 2019 season. Whale SENSE is a voluntary education and recognition program […]
CRUISE SPOTLIGHT, WILDLIFE REPORT The MMT Blog / The Gray Whales are Coming! What to Expect on Your Gray Whale Cruise The gray whale season is almost upon us here in Alaska! These massive animals are just now beginning their migration from their winter breeding grounds in Baja and heading north to the Chukchi and […]
ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITMENT, WILDLIFE REPORT The MMT Blog / 45 Years Later: The Marine Mammal Protection Act This week marks 45 years of the Marine Mammal Protection Act going into effect, making it illegal to hunt or harass marine mammals. This groundbreaking act, enacted on October 21st, 1972 and put into effect on December 21st of that […]
WILDLIFE REPORT The MMT Blog / The Season of Orcas Welcome back to the MMT Blog! After a few months off during the winter season we are getting the blog going again as we prepare for the 2016 season. It’s hard to believe, but our first cruise of the season departs in less than one […]
DECKHAND DIARY, WILDLIFE REPORT The MMT Blog / The Weird & Wonderful: My Three Strangest Wildlife Sightings in 2017 Offshore Orca It started on a May morning with a line of black fins dotted against the pearly grey backdrop of Resurrection Bay, but by the time the Orca Quest tour left the Seward Small Boat Harbor the […]
CRUISE SPOTLIGHT The MMT Blog / The Northwestern Fjord Cruise: Major Marine Tours’ Small-Vessel Adventure Cruise You are an adventurous traveler. You seek out up-close, personal experiences in vast, wild places — away from the crowds. You are a birder, a photographer, a wildlife enthusiast. Major Marine Tours offers a cruising experience for adventurers like […]
CRUISE SPOTLIGHT, DECKHAND DIARY The MMT Blog / Orca Quest Cruise “I don’t know where to point my camera!” The girl on the bow voiced what we all were thinking. I stood on the bow of the Orca Song, on the inaugural Orca Quest tour, surrounded by orca on all sides. The straight dorsal fin of a […]
