CRUISE SPOTLIGHT The MMT Blog / Birds of the Kenai Fjords: Birding Tips and Life List Species Some travel to the Kenai Fjords to stand on the bow of a boat beside the glaciers. Some come to experience the sound of a whale’s breath as it rises to the surface of the sea. Some visit […]
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. […]
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 […]
WILDLIFE REPORT The MMT Blog / Season in Review: Our Best Wildlife Encounters of 2018 Looking out over the snowcapped mountains and the silent waters of Resurrection Bay during the winter months, we can’t help but wonder what the wildlife will have in store for us in the upcoming season. After the 2017 season ended […]
DECKHAND DIARY, WILDLIFE REPORT The MMT Blog / Deckhand Diaries: From the Eyes of a Harbor Seal “Two harbor seals at your eleven o’clock.” I put down my binoculars and point. “They’re even with the next point of land, on the largest piece of ice.” “I see them now,” Captain Gary says, turning the wheel […]
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 […]
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 […]
