Day 24 & 25 - Cruising to Juneau

Our starboard cabin was facing east and Nan was up at the crack of dawn (on Sunday) to take some pictures of the sun coming up over the mountains. Well, so I’ve been told, as I was still sleeping. Today will be a sailing day as we travel from Vancouver to Juneau. The day was pretty much spent getting acquainted with ship and finding our way to the food, which I might add is plentiful and good. Everything that I have heard about the food on cruises is true. The other good thing about the cruise is that we are always in site of land, so there is something different to see every time you walk on deck or look out the window. The ship is over 900 feet long and has 1900 passengers, but as you know, we are on this cruise with 170 people who attended the Model A meet in Vancouver so we always seem to be running into someone from that event. Of course it would be hard to identify them if it weren’t for the fact that many of them are wearing some kind of Model A attire.

Monday morning was another early rise as the staff advised us that when we approached Tracy Arm we would likely see whales. Well, that’s all some of our group had to hear and they were on deck by 6 AM. As for me I was still sleeping, but I too, eventually made my way there just in case there were whales. Thankfully there were whales, but mostly we just saw them spout. Then it was on to the Tracy Arm fjord which was beautiful with its sky high mountains coming right down to the water line. The scenery was beautiful.



Juneau was next on the itinerary and when we docked we were off to our prearranged excursion. Nan & I were on a Photo Safari where we would learn techniques on how to compose landscape and wildlife pictures. Our guide took us to a rain forest area to practice on flora and fauna and then to the Mendenhal Glacier, which was a spectacular site to experiment taking pictures. Nan loved her mushroom photo the best though. Next we were off to the ocean to photograph whales. Our boat sped us out to the whales where we all tried to get Whale tails in motion. It was hard to time but most of us got the picture, although for me it was easy as I just videoed them.

No matter what excursion we took everyone had a great time and back on the ship we shared stories of our day. Tomorrow we’ll be in Skagway and the following day we will cruise Glacier National Park.