Flew to Vancouver on Aug 29, 2015. Spent 2 nights visiting with great friends Marilyn & Rosie (and the pups) that we had met on a previous cruise. They drove us to Whistler on Aug 30 where we visited the Olympic Village. On Aug 31 we boarded the NCL Sun cruise ship at the Vancouver cruiseport for a 7 night one-way cruise to Alaska. Stopped in Ketchikan on Sept 2- spent day walking around the port/shopping. Juneau on Sept 3- walked around the city and took shuttle to Mendenhall Glacier where we walked to the glacier and the waterfall. Next on Sept 4 we visited Skagway where we took a 6 hour tour up through the mountains, back into Canada through the Yukon Territory. The next 2 days back on the ship and visiting Glacier Bay and Hubbard Glacier. We got off the ship in Seward Alaska at 8am on Sept 7, rented a car, then spent the day driving the beautiful 125 mile trip from Seward to Anchorage. Spent a few hours at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center. Flew out of Anchorage at midnight back to LA.
Pictures are pretty much in order of the trip. Double click on them to enlarge.
Queen Elizabeth Park in Vancouver
Clemente with Harley
Nugget and Harley playing with the new toy
and this is just the appetizer
at the Tomahawk Restaurant
fun day in Whistler, home of the former Winter Olympics
Moose spotting....just beginning
How can you NOT have fun with 2 wonderful ladies like Marilyn & Rosie??
Breakfast with mega bacon
Smiling even though he didn't get his crayons and placemat
Happy bear
Leaving Whistler
View of the drive from Whistler to Vancouver
Arriving into our cabin
Nice room
Bathroom small but totally usable
Don't worry, it wasn't moving yet
Sacrificial lamb on the altar (also where the AA meetings were held)
CRAZY woman photobombing dinner
Crème brulee, Chocolate decadence, and a Fruit Fondue (only one night could we do this!)
Shrimp anyone?
Another nice dinner aboard ship
crew singing in atrium
Clemente got a job as the "5th" Season
One of the very simple dinners aboard
Food Food Food
Anniversary cake....and they sang to us "Let me call you Sweetheart"
In front of our ship
One of the nightly towel animals we got
Introduction of officers and crew
One 1/2 hour of rain aboard ship
Leaving Vancouver
Arriving early into Ketchikan
Wonderful weather
Walking Creek Street
Looking 20feet down into the water. So clear!
Can you say, SELFIE?
Bad hair day?
Visiting Mendenhall Glacier just north of Juneau
walking paths to glacier
Yes, that's a glacier back there
Rock formations, "Alaskan Graffiti" I was told
We actually saw several live eagles, in several cities
Next to the Glacier
Leaving the park, heading back to Juneau
Small, uneventful city for a capital
Ummm, make your own comments
Tour through Yukon Territory north of Skagway
Beautiful scenery
Carcross- bizarre home
cute store in Carcross, Yukon Territory
Enuf said
Brave, aint he?
Scenery!
Downtown Skagway
Emerald Lake- actually bright green
Rainbow was actually IN the water, taken from our cabin balcony
Several pics of glaciers- 2 days we visited these aboard ship
About 20 stories tall
Don't forget, if you're not looking full screen, you can double click pictures to enlarge
Looking down at chunks going by ship
Blue!
After arriving in Seward, AK
On the drive to Anchorage
Yes, that scene IS real
Fish swimming upstream, MANY dead going up wrong path
Well, there was a barbed wire fence but I was about 2 feet away
Food!
What do you want??
These were BIGGGG
Which would you believe?
Animal talk
Bye moose
