Not a lot to tell about our first day in Japan. We arrived about 9.30am but because of having to go through immigration ( which they do onboard the ship) it was after 1pm before we went ashore. We are usually up early and go up for breakfast at 6am….
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Typhoons & unplanned stops!
Yesterday we made an unplanned stop at the island just on the other side of Cape Lopatka, below the Kamchatka Peninsula as there was a medical evacuation needed. Interestingly, we had only been to a talk two days ago where the dr on board explained all about the medical centre…
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Russia -Petropavlosk Kamchakta
After 6 sea days and lots of time changes, we arrived in Petropavlosk where it was another perfect sunny autumn day. We tendered ashore and then took a tour of the city. At the top of the hill we visited the ‘new’ Russian Orthodox church, opened in 2001 its still…
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Seward – Exit Glacier
On this cruise we are constantly going through different time zones as we cruise back through a 17 hour time difference and also crossing the date line. So, on quite a few evenings we have to set out clock back an hour for the next day. We on the day…
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Mendenhall Glacier
We arrived at Juneau at lunchtime. Juneau is the capital of Alaska. It can only be reached by boat or plane as there is no roads out. There are about 50kms of roads in Juneau and at the time the local highway was built it was the most expensive highway…