DECKHAND DIARY The MMT Blog / My Springtime with Major Marine Tours One month ago this week, my boots touched ice and I found myself back in Seward, Alaska for my second season with Major Marine Tours. Seward is the first place on the planet to which I have returned, and you can read why here. […]
CRUISE SPOTLIGHT The MMT Blog / Spring Gray Whale Cruise Season is Here! Perhaps it’s all this sun we’ve been having in Southcentral Alaska this past month, but it certainly feels like spring is just around the corner. With spring comes longer days, warmer temperatures, and…gray whales! Every year we celebrate the return of migrating […]
DECKHAND DIARY The MMT Blog / My Best Three Moments in the Kenai Fjords, 2016 Tamara Lang, Major Marine Tours deckhand and interpretive volunteer at Kenai Fjords National Park, recounts her favorite memories from a season spent on the water in Kenai Fjords National Park. As August brings Alaskan fall, and the pink stalks of […]
ANNOUNCEMENT, CRUISE SPOTLIGHT The MMT Blog / Announcing the Orca Quest! New orca-focused cruise for 2017 There’s no experience quite like seeing the 5 foot tall dorsal fin of a bull orca whale cutting through the ocean’s surface, or watching an orca calf’s playful spouts and spyhops as he swims alongside his mother. These intelligent […]
DECKHAND DIARY, WILDLIFE REPORT The MMT Blog / The Deckhands Who Follow the Whales Major Marine Tours deckhands get to view Alaska’s incredible wildlife and glaciers every day. After seeing whales breach, sea otters snuggle their pups, and glaciers calving so many times, does the novelty of this place ever wear off? Tamara Lang, Major […]
DECKHAND DIARY, SEWARD SPOTLIGHT The MMT Blog / From the Bow – Wildlife Viewing in Seward, Alaska Most visitors to Alaska get to embark on a glacier and wildlife cruise just once. But what would it be like to cruise day after day? Our guest blogger Tamara Lang, a Major Marine Tours deckhand and interpretive […]
CRUISE SPORTLIGHT, WILDLIFE REPORT The MMT Blog / Wildlife Spotlight: Meet the Gray Whale, the “Friendly” Whale At this very moment, tens of thousands of gray whales are on their annual migration north from Baja to the Bering and Chukchi seas. These magnificent mammals travel 5,000 miles over the course of 2-3 months in one […]
