We had another wonderful day today. After docking in Juneau, we walked downtown and shopped a little bit. If you loved jewelry and had tons of money, these ports are the place to be - every other store is a jewelry store!
We ate lunch at the Red Dog saloon - left over from gold rush days - and took the Mt. Roberts tramway to the top of the mountain behind the city. Although our ship is huge, you can tell how high we were by how small it looks.
Then we took a bus out to the Mendenhall Glacier which was very cool - it looked blue from the minerals in the ice. There were blue icebergs floating in the lake below the glacier. They said bears were common in the area and we saw some bear poop, but no bears.
At 3:15, we were picked up by the Harv and Marv whale watching tour bus and taken to two boats to go chase whales. It was such fun, and we actually saw quite a few humpback whales during the 2 hours we were out. The last one was the best - our guide Steve thought it was a young one because it hung out close to the boat and seemed to be showing off all the things it could do. It slapped its tail on the water, rolled over so we could see its tummy, and waved its fins in the air. Steve said we had gotten more whales than most groups see. We also saw a Steller sea lion, porpoises, and several eagles and nests. It was a great afternoon.
Just to give you an idea of how big our ship is, the white "apartment
building" at the end of the street is actually our ship! It dwarfed eveything else in Ketchikan.
Every evening, our cabin steward turns down the bed and leaves chocolates and a little folded towel critter like this elephant.
More later - we're at an internet hotspot in Skagway and we're itching to go shopping!
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