The chain's 1,681 restaurants are nothing compared to true mega-chains, like McDonald's, which has more than 34,000 restaurants worldwide, or Starbucks and its 20,600-plus shops. Today, Chipotle has only 17 restaurants overseas, with plans to open more company-owned stores internationally in the coming year.
Whales & Whale Watching. Once hunted for oil and bone, today the whales of the northwest coast are recongnized as being unusually intelligent, gentle creatures. The most common whales you are likely to see in Alaska are orcas, or killer whales and humpbacks.
A wild orca pod can cover over 160 kilometres a day, foraging and socialising. Why are they called âkiller whalesâ when they are dolphins? Dolphins and whales are closely related. Orcas were given the name âkiller whaleâ by ancient sailorsâ observations of groups of orcas hunting and preying on larger whale species.