First things first. Picture alert. Lots of pictures. (Description for above is below. I hate when I accidentally delete it.)
Got this out of order. In Juneau this was an old train that used to remove snow from the tracks. Would drill through the snow and ice and then blow it away from the tracks.
This is how July started out. I got to go to Girls' Camp! They were all dressed up for their skit! I had a great time and the girls were great.
Our first formal evening on the ship. Bret and Terrie Runolfson are from Cottonwood, California. Bret and Scott were good friends growing up and I knew Terrie from junior high.
Our first stop was Juneau. We took a bus to Mendenhall Glacier (in the background). The salmon were just starting to run. They said that the rivers will get so full of salmon that you can walk across the salmon and then everything stinks very badly when they start to decompose.
A sideways picture of some ice off the glacier.
Mendenhall Glacier. This was the only rainy day we had so all the pictures look misty. We really lucked out with the weather.
The waterfall right next to Mendenhall Glacier. This doesn't show how large and powerful that thing was.
I was trying to show how big the waterfall was. It was very windy at the bottom of the waterfall.
Our ship on the left. A small boat on the right. I got such a kick out of the personal boats. They looked like remote control boats.
We met some pretty famous people there.
We had a full day in Skagway. We took a small bus up to the Yukon Territory border. This was one of the lakes on the way. The scenery on the whole trip was spectacular and my favorite part. These pictures don't do it justice.
Here's the border. We had been told by some to take the train, others had said not to. We opted to take the bus. It went up and back on the same road (further than the train goes), the train makes a loop. But the bus would stop for pictures. I'm not sure that the train did. We need to compare with someone who took the train to see if we missed out on something.
This was an afternoon of cruising in Glacier Bay. The glacier (a sideways picture, how do you rotate these things?) was not as big as I had pictured in my mind. We saw a few pieces calving (falling off), nothing huge. But the whole time you could hear what sounded like thunder because pieces were falling inside and behind it.
Glacier Bay. Again these pictures don't do it justice.
Got this out of order. In Juneau this was an old train that used to remove snow from the tracks. Would drill through the snow and ice and then blow it away from the tracks.
This is how July started out. I got to go to Girls' Camp! They were all dressed up for their skit! I had a great time and the girls were great.
Our first formal evening on the ship. Bret and Terrie Runolfson are from Cottonwood, California. Bret and Scott were good friends growing up and I knew Terrie from junior high.
Our first stop was Juneau. We took a bus to Mendenhall Glacier (in the background). The salmon were just starting to run. They said that the rivers will get so full of salmon that you can walk across the salmon and then everything stinks very badly when they start to decompose.
A sideways picture of some ice off the glacier.
Mendenhall Glacier. This was the only rainy day we had so all the pictures look misty. We really lucked out with the weather.
The waterfall right next to Mendenhall Glacier. This doesn't show how large and powerful that thing was.
I was trying to show how big the waterfall was. It was very windy at the bottom of the waterfall.
Our ship on the left. A small boat on the right. I got such a kick out of the personal boats. They looked like remote control boats.
We met some pretty famous people there.
We had a full day in Skagway. We took a small bus up to the Yukon Territory border. This was one of the lakes on the way. The scenery on the whole trip was spectacular and my favorite part. These pictures don't do it justice.
Here's the border. We had been told by some to take the train, others had said not to. We opted to take the bus. It went up and back on the same road (further than the train goes), the train makes a loop. But the bus would stop for pictures. I'm not sure that the train did. We need to compare with someone who took the train to see if we missed out on something.
This was an afternoon of cruising in Glacier Bay. The glacier (a sideways picture, how do you rotate these things?) was not as big as I had pictured in my mind. We saw a few pieces calving (falling off), nothing huge. But the whole time you could hear what sounded like thunder because pieces were falling inside and behind it.
Glacier Bay. Again these pictures don't do it justice.Ketchikan (picture at the top), where we spent a morning. It's a very small town of about 2800 people. A few ships can dock at the same time thereby doubling and tripling the size of the town.
A lumberjack show in Ketchikan. Can you say tourist trap? But it was a fun hour or so and those guys are really good at what they do.
The last stop was Victoria, B.C. We grabbed a cab and went to Butchart Gardens. That was more than I expected. Incredible. It was originally a gravel pit and the wife wanted to make something nice from it. The Victoria Symphony was doing an outdoor concert while we were there. It was fun to walk to Star Wars and other movie tunes.
A view into Butchart Bay from the gardens.
A lumberjack show in Ketchikan. Can you say tourist trap? But it was a fun hour or so and those guys are really good at what they do.
The last stop was Victoria, B.C. We grabbed a cab and went to Butchart Gardens. That was more than I expected. Incredible. It was originally a gravel pit and the wife wanted to make something nice from it. The Victoria Symphony was doing an outdoor concert while we were there. It was fun to walk to Star Wars and other movie tunes.
A view into Butchart Bay from the gardens. More pictures to come.
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