Alaska

Our plane to Alaska was a little smaller than we expected. Just kidding, this plane was just from Vancouver to Seattle where we boarded a humungus plane to Anchorage.


It was raining, overcast and not very appealing when we arrived at Wittier to board the Diamond Princess so we adjourned to the bar.


But by the time we disembarked and started cruising the weather improved and we could at least look at the pool, but not quite warm enough to go in. The bar was still OK.


Seeing the wildlife at sea was a highlight - some sea otters float past.

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The pool was too cold for us but even the seagulls had cold feet.


all the birds here seemed to have cold feet. There's nowhere warm for them to land.


Glacier Bay was spectacular. Had to stay out of the bar for several hours to take photos - but we only included a couple here.


Chris still found some time to do some line dancing classes. Drew's feet failed the classes so he reverted to plan A (photographing the bay, not the bar)


Proof that we were there - Glacier bay in the background


Lots of avalanches as the Glacier seems to have a life of its own.


Skagway was a fascinating town with interesting history as part of the goldrush - gateway to the Yukon.


We even made some new friends there.


Another beautiful glacier was Mendelhson, with the adjacent waterfall.


At Ketchikan, Creek Street was the old red light district and a beautiful part of town in other ways too.


Bald eagles here congregated around the marina hoping for a feed as the boats returned with their catch.


Our friend Roger went fishing and had some success so he and his wife Mary invited a few of us to help him devour his salmon. But it was too big for our table of ten.