CRUISE SPOTLIGHT The MMT Blog / How to Pick Your Kenai Fjords National Park Cruise Cruising in Kenai Fjords National Park is an experience like no other. Tidewater glaciers tower 500 feet about sea level. Incredible marine wildlife including killer whales, humpbacks, puffins, sea lions, and Dall’s porpoise feed in the area’s nutrient-rich waters. Beautiful […]
CRUISE SPOTLIGHT The MMT Blog / Tour Tips: How to Have the Best Cruise Experience Are you cruising with us this summer, but still have some questions about how to make the most of your glacier & wildlife cruise? Check out our insider’s tips on how to have your best cruising experience. Check In Early […]
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. […]
ANNOUNCEMENT, CRUISE SPOTLIGHT, SEWARD SPOTLIGHT The MMT Blog / Kenai Fjords Wildlife Cruise Named Most Popular Attraction in Alaska by TripAdvisor Most people who visit Alaska have a wildlife checklist in their heads, usually consisting of bears, moose, and whales. Alaska is known for our big, amazing wildlife, and for good reason: there’s nothing quite […]
CRUISE SPOTLIGHT The MMT Blog / 7.5 Hour Kenai Fjords National Park Cruise Cruising in Kenai Fjords National Park is an experience like no other. Tidewater glaciers tower 500 feet above sea level. Incredible marine wildlife including orca whales, humpback whales, puffins, Steller sea lions, and Dall’s porpoises feed in the area’s nutrient-rich waters. Beautiful […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
