What you will likely see
With a bountiful ocean surrounding its shores, Alaska's North Gulf Coast is a wildlife mecca. On your voyage you are likely to encounter Humpback and possibly Grey whales, killer whales, sea lions, porpoise, sea otters, and a wide variety of sea birds. Birds commonly sighted in-season include bald eagles, commorants, puffins, murres, scoders, a variety of gulls, eiders and terns. More exotic Asian species are also occasionally spotted. On the beaches are sandpipers, wimbrel, plover, and dowitchers in season. Among the regions big-game animals we also happen upon Sitka blacktail deer and black bears wandering the driftwood beaches. Mountain goats are occasionally spotted upon cliffs above rugged shoreline.