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…
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Arms Dawes Galcier
We had an itinerary change for today so that we could take a detour to visit the Arms Dawes Glacier. We were up on deck at 6am for this wonderful sunrise just as we started the journey in to the glacier. It takes two hours to get to the glacier….
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Ketchikan -3 – Dollys House!
Once we got back into town we took a tour of ‘Dollys House’. Dolly was one of the local madams that had a house on Creek St – the local red light area. She paid $800 for the house and had it fully paid off 2 weeks after arriving! Business…