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Sea kayaking in Alaska is an amazing way to spend part of a summer.
A power boat will take us from Seward around the windswept Aialik Cape and into Aialik Bay, where it will drop us off on a thin strip of beach between the ocean and the dense rainforest. The first thing you will notice is how quiet and peaceful it is. The silence, however, is often broken by the raucous calls of seagulls, the shriek of nesting eagles, the frantic flapping of chubby Puffins defying gravity, the exhalation of Humpback whales, and the rumble of calving glaciers crashing into the sea. It is a thriving environment, where one gets the sense of how the Earth may have been in another time, full of diverse life, going about its age-old business without the interference of humankind. We are privileged to be a part of this once common, now increasingly rare exuberance, if only for a couple of weeks.