Seemoreroyals and Sassycat's Alaskan Cruise
Sept 5th - 12th NCL Jewel
Day 1 Sat 9/5 - Leave Seattle 4pm
Day 2 Sun 9/6 - Day at Sea
Day 3 Mon 9/7 - Ketchican 7am - 2:30pm
Day 4 Tues 9/8 - Juneau 7am - 1pm
Day 5 Wed 9/9 - Skagway 7am - 5pm
Day 6 Thurs 9/10 Day at Sea
Day 7 Friday 9/11 Victoria, BC 5pm - 11:30pm
Sat 9/12 Seattle 8am debarkation
Seemoreroyals and Sassycat's Alaskan Cruise
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Seemoreroyals and Sassycat's Alaskan Cruise
Day 3 Ketchican 7am - 2:30 pm. The first day of three days in a row where the boat gets to port at 7am. And I think this was the first morning where we heard the loud clanging sounds at 3 in the morning. The consensus the night before was to meet our friends for breakfast at 8:30. We knew going into it that this 3 day stretch of the boat getting to port was going to be brutal. I may have mentioned earlier that our friends are not early risers plus they live in California which is 2 time zones behind where we live. I was really surprised that they were up and ready to go on time. We met for breakfast and had no particular plans for that day. They had heard about a tour that was only about three hours long that went to areas in Ketchican known for bear sightings and also known to be nesting sights for eagles and ending with a visit to Dolly's House which was once a house of prostitution a long time ago. So we decided to do that.
Between Sassycat and I we have quite a few pictures. There was a bear sighting we missed out on and it rained the second half of this tour but over all it was time well spent. Since we were only going to be in port until 2:30 and we wanted to have time to do some shopping this tour ended up perfect for us. I was amazed at how inexpensive everything was. We headed back to the ship with a couple of bags of t-shirts and hats and other stuff we really didn't need and were back on board with about 30 minutes to spare. After a couple of hours of quiet time back in the cabin we met us again with our friends for our normal pattern of drinking, listening to the entertainment at Magnum's, dinner, going to the nightly show, going back for more drinks and calling it a night somewhere in the midnight to 1am range if I were guessing. We had to get a little rest as our next stop was a visit to Juneau with an arrival the next morning at 7am.
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Seemoreroyals and Sassycat's Alaskan Cruise
Day 4 Juneau 7am to 1pm. Port day in Juneau was our shortest port day. We rented a car and after an early breakfast we were on our way to Mendenhahl Glacier. We wanted to get there before all of the buses and tours. Unfortunately we had about a 30 minute delay picking up our rent car because there was some sort of a hangup involving paperwork with the people in front of us in line to pick up our rental car. Not sure what the deal was but once it was our turn we were in on car and on our way in less than 5 minutes. We still got there before most of the tours and managed to get some spectacular pictures. I had read on Cruise Critic that if you get there early enough sometimes you can see bears. Unfortunately no bear sightings but we took the hike down to Nugget Falls and a close up view of the glacier. We spent quite a bit of time and I can see why Mendenhahl is supposed to be the most photographed glacier in the world. We spent quite a bit of time there and because our time was so limited we headed back to drop off the car and squeeze in some shopping before it was time to get back on cruiseship.
Later after a late lunch back on board ship we headed to the Spinaker Lounge for a viewing of Sawyer Glacier as we made our way through the inside passage. Afterwards we hung out and had some drinks at Magnums and did our normal cruise thing throughout the evening and next thing we knew it was close to midnight and after an 18 hour day we collapsed in our cabin. We had to get ready for tomorrow and our day in Skagway. To be continued.....http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/10...84261ddf03.jpghttp://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/10...9e4b9dd866.jpghttp://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/10...ab2028bd8c.jpghttp://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/10...803896505a.jpghttp://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/10...a969183da8.jpghttp://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/10...1c80cf2ebb.jpg