We had scheduled a kayaking trip for Thursday of our vacation, but had to reschedule for the following day because I realized 30 minutes before we needed to leave to go to the Landing for our trip, that I had lost my license, credit cards and some cash the day before - after we returned from our Gilligan Tour...Abnormal amounts of stress and anxiety consumed me because all I was thinking about was how the heck was I gonna get through security at the airport without my ID? Thankfully Andy grabbed the envelope with the kids birth certificates in them, which also contained mine, as well as both of my social security cards! But what a pain! Retracing steps, visiting the dock stores, harbormaster, police station all in hopes that someone had turned it in. Then calls to the credit card companies to cancel the cards and get replacements. Calls to TSA to find out if and how I could get back home in just a few more days. I'm grateful to my husband who just took charge of the situation while I wallowed in my own anxiety.
So to take a kayaking trip, just the two of us, after all the craziness was dealt with, was such a great reward. It was wonderful traveling with my parents because they were willing babysitters! We took a water taxi across the bay to Humpy Cove. It was such a beautiful morning. The sun was shining and it was actually pretty warm (for Alaska standards) in the cove.
The scenery would have been enough to relax this stressed out mom, but we were blessed with the opportunity to see lots of incredible wildlife as well!
This is the direction we started in - towards Orca Island
There are these cute little yurts where you can book overnight kayaking trips - if we get to go back to Seward, this is on our list of things to do, along with kayaking to some of the glaciers
Lots of little ducks around without a momma in sight
Getting closer to the yurts - it was so nice, quiet and peaceful there. I could picture myself on the deck of one of the yurts while enjoying a morning cup of tea
To my surprise, there were starfish on the reefs in this little cove! We also saw a few jellyfish floating around and came across some harbor porpoise while we were there!
My handsome kayaking partner - we booked a tandem so it would be easier for me to take pictures
Here's the little harbor seal we came across in our adventure. He was so cute!
Isn't this just incredible scenery? We were headed to a waterfall that our tour group was getting out to hike back to, but Andy and I decided we'd rather just paddle around than go see a waterfall, and luckily we did because we came across 4 little river otters playing!
These guys were so cute and much more fun to watch than seeing a waterfall!
They were so playful! Otters are one of my favorite animals (along with dolphins)!
One actually swam under our kayak and popped up to take a closer look at us!
Such curious little guys
I think I could have watched them all day!
The water was so calm and the view so breathtaking!
I was sad to see our time come to an end
We then paddled back to shore just in time for the water taxi to pick us up and take us back across the bay. If you ever get the chance to get to Alaska and have the time for a kayaking trip, the Humpy Cove/Orca Island trip via Miller's Landing is one to consider! I think this was my most favorite thing to do while in Alaska!
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