Trip Log – September 8, 2009 – Juneau

It’s about 7:15 am.  Woke up to calm seas (amazing the difference between calm and “moderate”) and forest-covered mountains (small mountains maybe, but certainly mountains to us) across the water.  A nice view as we sip our Community on the balcony to start the day.  We are now in the Alaskan time zone so it’s about 10:15 in Baton Rouge.

Today is Juneau.  We arrive there about 1:15 pm and should be able to dock about 2:00 (have to wait for a parking space).  Then we are off with Harv and Marv for a local small-boat whale-watching tour (thanks to our cruise consultant, daughter Christine), and then tooling around Juneau until 9-ish this evening.  We both hope to see more whales.  I hope to see Sarah Palin, too!

Yea, right Ken.  The air is brisk, about 49 degrees, smells fresh! Overcast; hopefully that will blow away with the breeze. There are a few small boats between us and land. We are entering Frederick Sound.  Still excited about the whales we saw yesterday.  If I was a salmon, I would come back here too for my final days J.

9:30 am:  Back from breakfast and in the meantime we have come into the area where we are seeing “first snow” and glaciers on the mountains.  We are about to review the buttons and switches on Sue’s big camera as it takes great pics – as long as everything is set right; and we have never spent the time to really get to know all of the “features.”  We will have the Canon along, too, as it is point and click for people like us.