The Fjordland express is a high speed catamaran, transports 50 people, powered by two 800 hp diesel engines. Fjordland consumes 40 gallans of fuel hour, at 3/4 throttle, twice that at full speed. We took it 90 miles down the Lynn Channel to Alaska’s capital, Juneau. The trip down was in the rain, we saw a bear or two, dozens of eagles, glaciers and a few fin-back whales. After looking around Juneau for 2 hours we tooka bus to the Menendall Glacier.  While at the glacier the sun came out and the trip back to Haines was clear and sunny. While returning to Haines we saw many whales….the 100, 000 pound finback kind: a mother and her baby, a group of about six bubble feeding, one young one splashing and slapping his flukes on the water. During bubble feeding they herd a school of fish to the surface and eat them, fish trying to escape makes the water bubble. Each whale needs 1000 pounds of food per day.