This photo I took is not that sharp, primarily because when I took it, we were bobbing up and down in a Zodiac inflatable boat right behind the one about to enter a cave in the Shumagin Islands, and taking a photo was less important to me than falling off the boat into 50 degree water. But, it does convey the sorts of things we explored during a 2-week vacation last July to Alaska, the Bering Sea and Far Eastern Russia. We spent a lot of time in the Zodiacs exploring, sometimes riding up to a quarter of a mile from the 100-passenger cruise ship we were on, to some land destination. Most times we had to wade to shore (calf length rubber boots on) while battling the cold breaking waves. Thankfully, the air temperature was not that bad.
