It’s spring in the Far North. The gray whales have been swimming past the mouth of Resurrection Bay near Seward and along Kodiak Island, well on their way toward summer feeding grounds in the Arctic.
“We’ve been seeing gray whales every day, and we’ve seen quite a bit,” said Andrea Kosto, education coordinator for Kenai Fjords Tours, which sends boats out almost every day to view whales near Seward.
On Kodiak, the people at the Whalefest 2007 — sponsors of an annual 10-day festival that begins April 13 — reported three gray whales sighted on April 1, six or seven on April 2 and another three on April 10.
The sightings mark the beginning of the annual explosion of marine life off Alaska’s vast coast, all of it triggered by a blooming ocean and new generations of birds, fish, seals, sea lions and whales.
