Random thoughts from the sea
Day 5, 2024 Majestic Japan Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024; Sitka, Alaska We lucked out today in Sitka, Alaska, as earlier forecasts for rain today disappeared. The sun tried unsuccessfully to peek through low-hanging clouds, but for this town where it rains two out of every three days, we’ll count today
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Day 3, 2024 Majestic Japan Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024; Vancouver, BC, Canada Normally cruise ships start or end their Alaska cruises in Vancouver, so unless cruisers plan to extend their trips, they don’t see much of this beautiful city. We have the full day here, so I took advantage and
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Day 2, 2024 Majestic Japan Monday, Sept. 1, 2024; Victoria, BC, Canada What a rare treat – a full day in Victoria on a cruise! Typically, ships call here for just a couple of hours in order to satisfy the peculiarities of U.S. maritime law. We docked at 7 a.m.
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Day 27, 2024 Ultimate Alaska Friday, July 5, 2024; Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada Cruises should stop more often in Prince Rupert, Canada. It’s a nice deep-water port in British Columbia and fulfills the requirement that ships stop in a non-U.S. port when sailing round trip from Seattle. Typically cruise
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Day 24, 2024 Ultimate Alaska Tuesday, July 2, 2024; Juneau, Alaska. Sometimes I just have to put the camera down and soak in the view. Whale spouts erupted all around us – I didn’t know where to focus my zoom lens. Perhaps a dozen humpback whales were blowing, slapping tails
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Day 23, 2024 Ultimate Alaska Monday, July 1, 2024; Haines, Alaska Lions and tigers and bears – oh my! OK, no lions or tigers, but today I did see a bear in the wild – a highlight of the trip so far! I’m not sure whether there is an Alaskan
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Day 20, 2024 Ultimate Alaska Friday, June 28, 2024; Homer, Alaska When I first stepped ashore in Homer this morning, it looked unfamiliar. We tendered to a dock near the end of the Spit – a 4.5-mile sandbar jutting into Kachemak Bay south of Anchorage. But once we got from
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Days 18-19, 2024 Ultimate Alaska Wednesday & Thursday, June 26-27, 2024; Anchorage, Alaska Friends make for the best port visits, and Anchorage was no exception. We’ve sailed with Cleta and Ray on grand world voyages, where we’ve cheered on our Kansas City Chiefs to Super Bowl victories. They retired to
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Day 17, 2024 Ultimate Alaska Tuesday, June 25, 2024; Kodiak, Alaska In a state as big as Alaska, you might think it would be easy to get away to be alone in nature. Not so much, especially when you are cruising on a ship with almost 2,000 passengers. But today,
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Day 13, 2024 Ultimate Alaska Friday, June 21, 2024; Nome, Alaska. If there was a sense of disappointment that we didn’t make it to the Arctic Circle, the community of Nome made up for it. Yesterday our plan was to sail north through the Bering Strait to cross the Arctic
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