Tag: Whales

Paddling the Alaskan Food Chain

by James Michael Dorsey | 07.19.10 | 11:45 AM ET

Photo by *christopher* via Flickr (Creative Commons)

James Michael Dorsey was enjoying a quiet kayaking outing on Alaska's Inside Passage. Then he spotted a dorsal fin.

Tags: Kayaking, Outdoors, Whales, North America, United States, Alaska

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Jeffrey Goldberg Goes Whale Watching

by Eva Holland | 08.18.09 | 3:31 PM ET

And if he had to summarize the Cape Cod excursion in one word? Awesome. From his blog over at The Atlantic: “I don’t mean ‘awesome’ in a juvenile way, I mean ‘awesome’ as in, ‘if God did indeed create the earth, he did a bang-up job in the large mammal department…’ It’s impossible to describe the sight of a finback whale forty feet from where you stand. I’ll say this—you and your problems shrink in significance.”

Tags: Whales, Why We Travel, North America, United States, Massachusetts, News and Briefs