Alaska Writeup

18 July 2003 Friday

6:00AM Colts Neck to Newark airport

9:45AM +30m flight to Seattle

Security hassle in Seattle

Flight to Juneau

Bus airport to hotel

Salmon dinner at "green" restaurant

Tram view

Cruise ships at dock

Shop for gloves

19 July 2003 Saturday  —  Juneau

Birthday card

Breakfast at hotel "short handed"

Tram ride up

Walk 0.5 mi trail

Sit and watch eagle with  binocs

Tram ride down

Walk along dock

Shopping:  Books, gloves

Arrange Suitcases

Lunch, salmon at dock

2nd Tram ride

Birding guy on dock

Boat Security

Board boat, room

Lemonade

Dinner, Phila couple, CA couple

20 July 2003 Sunday  —  Skagway

Boat travel, 30 W of North, Juneau to Skagway, gray clouds

GPS

Lounge, spot whales

Buffet lunch

Arrive Skagway, AK

Street trolley bus to train station, funny gal driver, tour shopping town, mining town, brothels

Train, left side view, announcer surprises, camera crowd; coach coupling down

Walk in tourist shopping, book shop, whale info card

Walk back to boat, cruse ship people

Captain's cocktail party, dinner, watch cruise ship launch

21 July 2003 Monday  —  Haines

Haines, AK, small town

7:00AM Bus from boat to raft launch, author guy, Tom Lang, funny

Rubber boots for raft

Raft - Eagles, Salt Lake City guide

Bus back to town and boat, buy books from author Tom Lang

Lunch on boat

Shopping:  carved Puffin, Totem Pole book, Gold Nugget earrings

Walk along shoreline back to boat

Camera Kathy pic

Talk plants AK gal nature guide

Dinner English & Phila

Bow deck

22 July 2003 Tuesday  —  Elfin Cove

Whale sightings, ~15-whale group, Humpback Whales, spouts, flukes, sounds

Talk, GA nature gal, marine mammals

Bald Eagle in tree

Arrive Elkin Cove, AK

Buffet lunch in lounge

Elkin Cove woman's orientation

 Zodiacs to Elkin Cove

Ashore in Elkin Cove

walk board sidewalks, figure "6"

Hummingbird on morning glory blossom tree

Interesting tree roots

General store

Museum

Blue gloves

Sea lions on island, sun backlight

Sea lions tossing fish, sea gulls swarming

Dinner, Columbus, OH, English

Glacier Bay National Park ranger aboard, talk

23 July 2003 Wednesday  —  Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve

6:00AM Glacier Bay

glimpse 5 bears

Grizzly Bear

Mountain goats

Margerie Glacier

River discharge at base of glacier

Seals on ice floes

Buffet lunch, biscuits, sausage sauce, NY teachers

Ice cream sundaes

Bright sun, rest in room

Whale breaching, Pectoral fins

AK gal guide talk, laughs

Dinner, NY women, laughs

Lounge, Armenian guy

Video, Glacier Bay

24 July 2003 Thursday  —  Sitka

Sitka, AK

Bus to raptor center, driver Mary, red jacket/badges

Raptor (Bald Eagles) Rehab

Close-up binocs of bald eagle

Sitka National Historical Park

Walk in woods, bridge over stream, eagles

Totem pole path

Museum, pull-out drawers

Lunch, cold salmon, key lime pie

Walk along tourist shops

Russian Orthodox Church

Russian Bishop's home

Boat for Sprite

Native dancers show

Dinner, crab, Armenian/Czech

Ice cream/Banana

8:30PM Whitestone Narrows passage

25 July 2003 Friday  —  Tracy Arm

GA nature gal talk mammals

~11:30AM cross submerged terminal moraine, 70 ft

Spectacular scenery, don't want to miss it

Hasty lunch, soup & sandwich in lounge

Fjords, glaciers, waterfalls

Cold, wind, gloves (two pair)

"Hole-in-the-Wall" waterfall, crew with pitchers

Glacier, lumpy and jagged, blue ice

Icebergs floating, blue ice

Thunderous sound and sight of icebergs calving

Waves from calving

Seals on ice floes

Struggling crew with net in zodiac capture iceberg

Stern deck chair, scenery

Recross terminal moraine, 70 ft

Coffee in lounge

Packing

Captain's farewell dinner

Carol & Mary Lou, Armenian/Czech

26 July 2003 Saturday  —  Juneau

Breakfast, Chicago, Nashua,NH

Bus to hotel

Wait in lobby

Walk to state capitol, salmon stream, state museum

Lunch Hanger restaurant

Shopping area

buy Gloves

Hotel wait

Bus to airport

Check-in fish freight

Flight to Seattle

call Carol

Tuna sandwich in Seattle airport

Flight to Newark

27 July 2003 Sunday

~6:30AM Arrive Newark

Murphy limo to Colts Neck

7:50AM Arrive Wedgewood