We were fortunate to have great weather for our day in Ketchikan. They usually get 12-13 feet of rain a year but this year has been much drier than usual. By 10am when we went for out rainforest walk the sun was shining. This is a type of cabbage that…
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Ketchikan -1- Creek St
We were up early to see the sun come up as we sailed in to Ketchikan – the Salmon Capital of the world, first stop in Alaska. On the opposite side to the port & town there were houses along the shoreline. All the houses are built of timber and…
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Alaska Cruise -day 1-2
After a long, disorganised morning yesterday we finally made it on board about 12.30pm. The ship is lovely. Although its small it does not feel crowded at all even though its almost fully booked. Mostly Americans, Canadians – lots of Australians, a few Germans and Japanese. We’ve discovered that Australians…
On board!
A quick post to let you know we’re on board, still waiting to sail off at 9pm – delayed due to having to load 20days of supplies instead of the usual 7. We had a few delays this morning getting on board – they were quite disorganised, then we found…
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Vancouver -3 – Granville Island
Well after a nice long sleep in while it was raining this morning we emerged from our hotel about 11am for a walk to explore a bit more of the harbour. (yes I can’t stop taking pics of all these beautiful pots!) We skirted around the edge of Chinatown, just…