As you’ve noticed we’ve been out of touch while cruising. I wrote the blog each day and will now try to publish them all here in Juneau...
June 8 Day 1 was sort of a hurry up and wait kink of a day. After checking out of our Sitka Super 8 motel, we drug our luggage a short 2 blocks to the Westmark Hotel to ready for our small ship cruise. We had half a day left after securing our belongings in the “ready” suite. So we shopped, did lunch and some last minute site-seeing before “wandering” back to the hotel. With a wine in hand, I applied myself and managed to finish editing all our video footage. We were transported to the ship by bus and our Wilderness Exploration began with a cocktails, a welcome orientation and a fabulous dinner as we pulled out of Sitka under partially cloudy skies which presented a fabulous sunset about 10:00 p.m. We spent the night in Paviat Harbor
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| Harrigan Center Sitka - A plaque tells the story... |
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| Above plaque part of this lovely sculpture. |
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| A Tlingit (pronounced Klinkit) Ceremonial Canoe. |
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We visited the Sitka Firehouse and received a tour. The fireman
giving us the tour said that the lady whose name is painted
on the fire ladder truck gave them $300,000 after they
cleaned her driveway with a firehose in early spring.
It paid for half of this $600,000 rig!!! |
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Statue of a prospector in front of the Pioneer Home
in Sitka |
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| where we also spotted these beautiful blue flowers. |
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| They really did look like crepe paper. |
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Our luggage as well as 73 other passengers awaits
in the "ready room" |
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| We boarded the "boat" |
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| Wilderness Explorer - an Un-Cruise adventure |
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| Panaroma shot with iPhone as we left Sitka Harbor |
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| Our route for Day 1 - Saturday 5:30 - 10:30 |
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| We used these a lot in the days that followed... |
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| and "pigged" out here 3 times a day!!! |
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| 9:30 p.m. |
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| About 10:30 p.m. |
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