After a lunch involving an "Inside Passage Burger" which was stuffed with brie cheese and spicy scallion paste, with tiramisu for dessert, I made a DIB excursion with my camera. The DIB is an inflatable boat and we had the choice of going out with the photographer on board or the naturalist. There were so many of us who wanted the photography option that Tom graciously volunteered for the other. We were grouped according to name of different species; I was one of the Brown Bears and Tom was... a puffin! He made the most of it, though, and apparently created a little Puffin greeting. Later it morphed into "we are the Puffins! mighty, mighty puffins!" and surprisingly, another cruise-mate recognized the old high school cheer and joined in. Not surprisingly, however, we received some odd looks.
This cruise was billed as a photography cruise, and there was supposed to be a Pentax representative on board to give seminars and allow us to use his equipment. I'm not sure what happened to that, but we have a young photographer and his wife. No Pentax and no equipment to use, but he is giving us pointers. I think I was at the pre-dummy level! He had to show me how to set the ISO! There are some very serious photographers here with monster lenses. And then there is me. Miss Auto Focus. Actually, moving away from the "green zone"(auto focus) and venturing into "S" and "A" settings were the challenge. It was a big revelation to me and I got some cool pictures!
We weren't out long. We went to a waterfall and along the rock wall, and to a floating piece of ice. I'm not sure what qualifies as an iceberg. It doesn't seem to have a size requirement.
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