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Day 165, June 8th, part 7

Friday, July 14, 2017

Details of one of the thousands of waterfalls along the way.   * * ~Curtis in Alaska!  {!-{>

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Day 164, June 8th, part 6

Wednesday, July 5, 2017

This chunk of ice is surfacing after breaking off from the part of the glacier that is underwater. The deep blue color is from the ice being so compressed within the glacier that the oxygen was squeezed out of it! They seem to slowly lose that blue coloring after they float away and start to […]

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Day 163, June 8th, part 5

Tuesday, July 4, 2017

Ice fall at Dawes Glacier.  Remember, we are a good distant from the glacier: that chunk of ice is the size of a Suburban! A close view of that ice cave after. Of course, it doesn’t last like that long… ~Curtis at Dawes Glacier, Alaska! {!-{>

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Day 162, June 8th, part 4

Tuesday, July 4, 2017

On our way to Tracy Arm, the Captain of the Amsterdam decided there was too much ice flowing out of that fjord, so we do not turn north into Tracy Arm, but south to Dawes Glacier at the end of Endicott Arm.  Here you can see a large glacier hanging on the mountain. And our first […]

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Special Edition!

Sunday, July 2, 2017

The Camera Club went out last night to Belt to shoot burning steel wool…a  great time was had by all!  The steel wool was ignited and whirled around the head of Allan#1, the significant other of a Club member.  Special thanks to Alan#2 who had to leave early but left me his tripod when I […]

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Day 161, June 8th, part 3

Friday, June 30, 2017

On and off the rest of the morning we were taunted…by whales… A close up… * ** *** ** * ~Curtis in Alaska! {!-{>

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Day 160, June 8th, part 2

Friday, June 30, 2017

As we approached the Fjord known as Tracy Arm, we began to see Seals. ~Curtis in Alaska! {!-{>

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Day 159, June 8th, part 1

Thursday, June 22, 2017

This is Thursday, so we are headed to Tracy Arm, a long fjord with a glacier or two at the end. But first, lots of beautiful scenery and a somewhat cloudy sunrise… A Pacific Loon. A closer view… Our first whale sighting!  But still a long ways away.  It will be for today… Gulls on […]

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Day 158, June 7th

Thursday, June 22, 2017

  The first thing to see when you approach Ketchikan is the US Coast Guard, including a ship big enough for a permanently emplaced deck gun. The Dorothea, an interesting look vessel. Ketchikan Harbor and the Dailylife Wife! A three photo panorama of the Ketchikan Cruise Ship dock and all of the diamond merchants across […]

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Day 157, June

Thursday, June 22, 2017

A day at sea.  This a general map showing our destinations: Ketchikan, Tracy Arm, Anchorage, with a few others thrown in: Juneau, Icy Straight, Homer, Kodiak, Hubbard Glacier, and Victoria.  This is from the in-stateroom television.  It has a limited selection, but one of the channels is ship and trip stats like this. We are […]

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