Alaskan Cruise from Vancouver, British Columbia to Alaska

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