Warning: they aren't very good. You could look online and get better images, but here's what I took with my device (aka: cellphone).
Ketchikan:
One of the many totems in the town.
Tracy Arm Fjord:
Ice chunks in the water as we sailed up the Tracy Arm. That lower one is bigger than a car. The small chunks were everywhere, with larger ones floating randomly. The slurry of smaller chunks made me feel as if we were a garnish floating in a giant cocktail.
See that rectangular dot in the water, in front of the glacier? That's a small tour boat - small only compared to a cruise ship. It holds over 100 people (maybe 40 or 50 feet long? Not small.) It's still a safe distance away from the glacier and it is but a speck in the sea. The glacier is huge. Shrinking at an alarming rate, but still such a mind boggling amount of ice.
I like this picture because it shows the ship's wake as we turned around in the cul de sac. Lol.
Juneau:
View of the cruise ship dock from on high. If it looks like we were straight up, we were.
Mendenhall Glacier, from the park viewpoint. I wish I could have captured the colors in the ice. The blues... astounding, amazing colors.
Sockeye salmon. This species is easier to photograph because of their color. The silvery species... not with a cell phone. Not for me, anyway!
Two of the same view, from the aerial tram above Juneau. The changing light... I, wordy woman that I am, I am out of words to describe the beauty.
More later. This is long enough!
8 comments:
Your photos are great -- don't hesitate to post more! But I refuse to believe that the log is an otter . . . .
These are terrific. That ship though, wow.
IT'S AN OTTER!!! IT'S AN OTTER'S TUMMY!!!
Middle Girl: Wow is right! I found it overwhelming to look at, but inside it feels like a hotel. Mostly. It becomes ship-like in the lower (crew) levels. But still. Enormous.
Staggeringly, at one point we were parked next to one that towered over ours.
Also: All Hail the Debs! No matter how they spell their name!!!
Even if I don't ever take an ocean cruise I should get myself to a launch just to bear withness to one of these marvels.
You knoe how often I am asked how I spell D-e-b-o-r-a-h? You know when I stopped answering, "the right way"? All Debs, yep. Lol
This is such an adventure! How cool!
I can guarantee that's an otter because of living in Monterey, which has a lot of otters in the Bay. :)
Love, e.
Em
Thanks E! We east coast folks may never get a chance to see Alaska. Although I have seen cruise ships and frankly don't understand why they don't tip over. Those glaciers are amazing! I wonder how much longer they'll be there : (
I spoke too soon - you DID post photos! Thanks for that - Alaska is definitely on my list. And I'm glad you identified the otter - I would have thought it was a log, for sure, but I looked again and can see that it's an animal. :-)
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