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non chan s blog non chan s blog monday august 27 2012 alaska here we come part 1 vancouver we boarded the cruise ship in vancouver bc and sailed to whittier ak and then to fairbanks ak to see tony s family what a trip it was first we flew from salt lake city to vancouver we stayed at a very nice marriott hotel downtown which was only five minutes walk to the cruise ship dock we stayed on 23rd floor so we had a very nice view of the city but i forgot to take pictures of the view from our room duh in vancouver 90 of taxis are toyota prius it was so funny to see all the prius taxis lined up at the airport streets in downtown and at hotels one taxi driver said that it is because the gas is so expensive there and drivers can t afford to have regular cars we had a nice breakfast at urban fare very nice small grocery store near hotel which was very good but very expensive i guess everything is expensive there and then we spent all morning walking around downtown before we had to board the princess sapphire who s this cute couple we never figurred out what this was any guesses on what this is all about cool house boats huh high rise condominiums by the harbor if i had tons of money i would love to live in one of those conduminiums looking out over the harbor vancouver is a beautiful town more beautiful than i remembered one of hundreds of beautiful planters in downtown vancouver here we go to the ship quite the sight with all of us hauling all of our belongings through the town we saw this on the way to the cruise ship dock do you remember this structure from the 2010 winter olympics off to ketchikan good bye beautiful vancouver posted by nobuko at 7 46 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest alaska here we come part 2 cruise we cruised on the princess sapphire ship this time it was a little bit different from our previous celebrity cruise but it was a very nice ship our cabins grandma and ken had a mini suite which was very nice we spent a lot of time in their cabin playing games taking pictures of beautiful scenery from the deck etc thanks grandma and ken for sharing your cabin with us the rest of us had ocean view cabins with blocked view but it wasn t bad at all it was very nice and we enjoyed it very much this ship has so many swimming pools and jacuzzis we sat on these chairs with wool blankets on relaxed and watched movies on a jumbo tron at the pool side with popcorn and ice cream cones grandma and ken even stayed up to watch artist till 11pm or midnight scott and i couldn t stay awake so we went to bed about 10pm we were a little worried about leaving grandma and ken alone without a chaperon formal dinner casual dinner guess where this ship was made yes in japan by mitsubishi i knew they make heavy equipment but didn t know they made cruise ships this ship cost 500 million dollars to build this ship has sailed all over the world and yes carol this has even been to busan lots of beautiful art displays art gallery one of the entertainers on the ship ketchikan we got up early to watch the ship approach ketchikan we had fond memories of coming here last summer to visit jamie it seemed kind of lonely this time around without having jamie to visit no personal helicopters on any of these ships this year but the boat on the left had their own float plane one of these boats has an original van gogh painting hanging inside two million dollar painting downtown ketchikan sorry last year s photo we had lunch at the very famous fish chip last year s photo too notice the blue sky like last year we did kayaking in orca cove and sea plane ride to misty fjord national monument even though it was raining it was so much fun last year we had a beautiful day when we flew to misty fjord national monument but it was very misty this time around i guess that is why it is called misty fjord water falls everywhere we landed by a small dock in a fjord and got off the plane for a few minutes it started to rain hard beautiful scenery around ketchikan on the way to juneau from ketchikan a norwegian cruise ship seemed to be in a hurry to get to juneau it was like this ship and our ship were racing they beat us they were already docked when we got there it was pretty to watch that ship with lights on but at times it appeared to be a ghost ship through the fog juneau since terry and scott decided to sign up for behind the scene tour at the very last minute the night before and maureen wanted to work out in the morning so i picked up a minivan at the airport at 8 30am picked up mom and ken back at the ship and went to salmon hatchery it was a small hatchery but it was an interesting place we could see salmons swim up a long ladder we even watched the workers slitting salmons stomach to collect their eggs on live web cam thousands of salmons crammed in the pond inside the small visitor center at the hatchery there was a nice size aquarium with marine life in the visitor center as i was taking photos of fish and starfish etc this crab started crawling towards where i was standing it stopped right in front of me and started staring at me and it did so for a long time i don t know why it started staring at me but it was weird and funny it had seaweed growing on top of it after the hatchery we picked up terry maureen and scott and went to medenhall glacier i love glaciers they are so spectacular this is an old photo of mendenhall glacier that an ranger took 25 years ago see how close the glacier was to the waterfall on the right this is the photo i took can you see how much it has receded in 25 years it is sad we even got to touch 200 year old ice that was cool no pun intended then we went whale watching we had a small boat to ourselves our captain was a cute 19 year old girl she grew up in juneau and was the daughter of the owner of this whale watching company she sure knew everything about the area her family lives on an island with no electricity and water so they have solar panels for electricity only 14 people live on the island they commute to juneau everyday by motor boat i don t know if i can live like that but i thought it was cool that someone lives like that it was raining but i was so determined to take photos of whales that i sat outside on the small deck with my camera wrapped in a towel for quite a long time i was all soaked and freezing to death but i had a great time here are some wildlife we saw on this whale watching tour these are just a few of the hundreds of photos i took on this whale watch boat trip humpback whale going for a deep dive we even saw young orcas playing see the fin of an adult orca on the very right my goodness that was a huge fin the captain said that it could be about 8 feet tall another humpback whale surfaced going for a deep dive when i was looking for whales through my lens this one suddenly surfaced it was much closer to our boat that was very exciting sea lions lazily sleeping on a buoy bald eagle we wanted to go on mt roberts tramway but we didn t have enough time skagway we rented a minivan in skagway and drove to the canadian yukon territory it was a beautiful ride to yukon now we can say we ve been to yukon there were so may small lakes along the highway and they were all an emerald green color back to skagway had lunch and went on a helicopter ride to a glacier here comes our helicopter all ready to fly this time they took us to a different glacier we flew through a beautiful fjord and headed southeast approaching the glacier that we are going to land on glacier was so dirty it didn t look like ice it rather looked like we were landing on concrete in a parking lot she was our guide and was a very good one she was from tennessee and has been doing the guide work for six years these guides spend 10 12 hours a day everyday on this glacier group picture time cheese our guide took us to a very deep crevasse which goes 300 ft straight down we had to be very careful looking down in this crevasse our guide had to hold on tight to the back of our life jacket as we looked down to make sure that we wouldn t fall down into this crevasse water falling straight down into a 300 ft crevasse i had to hold my camera out as far as i could over this deep hole to take this photo standing on the very edge of the crevasse yes of course the guide was holding very tight on to my vest it was so scary that i was feeling kind of queezy i was so afraid that i might drop my camera into this crevasse flight back to skagway three huge cruise ships in the tiny town of skagway the town s population soars from 800 people to 8000 in a matter of hours as we were exiting the fjord from skagway it was sooo windy at the front of the ship and very difficult to even stand still glacier bay national park beautiful national park too bad the weather wasn t great but it was still beautiful some ice floating by our ship approaching lamplugh glacier there it is this glacier is about 3 4 mile wide this may not look tall but this chunk is at least 120 ft tall just another beautiful glacier near margerie glacier there was a tour boat trying to get as close as they could to the glacier margerie glacier world heritage site i was raining quite hard by the time we got to margerie glacier next two picutres are what margerie glacier looks like if it weren t raining photos from internet this glacier is about 1 mile wide photo from internet photo from internet this glacier is standing about 250 ft above water and 100ft below water amazing this is also one of the most active glaciers for calving it means breaking and dropping of ice walls into the sea i noticed that this glacier has more jagged and twisted form on the top than any other glaciers i ve ever seen as i zoomed in and was taking this photo of the top of the glacier above people yelled there it goes wow so i hurried and moved my camera down and this is what i saw unfortunately i didn t see the big chunk of ice that broke off the glacier i didn t even hear the sound of the ice breaking off till two or three seconds after they yelled i saw a couple of small chunks of ice fell before this one but this was the best one and so exciting to see when a cruise ship comes into this park national park rangers from a nearby village come on board the ship and have lectures in the theater put a lot of displays in the other part of the ship etc all day so people can learn about this national park it was very educating and fun waiting for the lecture to start this park ranger gave us a very nice presentation we learned a lot at the end of the day a boat came to our ship to pick up the rangers the rangers had to climb down on the rope ladder to get on this boat i am sure it was kind of hard to do our cruise ship wasn t about to stop to make it easy park rangers waiving good bye to the passengers as they pull away from the ship college fjord last day on the ship we were feeling kind of sad that our cruise was nearing the end but the sun came out for the first time while we were at sea we were at sea for one day after vancouver and for two days after skagway and that cheered us up it felt sooo good to have sunshine we just relaxed on the deck tried one of jacuzzis as we sat in the jacuzzis we saw two whales that kept breaching over and over that was very fun to watch but sadly i didn t have my camera with me so no photos of that scott taking a nap another nap there are sooo many beautiful glaciers in this fjord i ve never seen so many glaciers in one place for those who is wondering why this fjord is called college fjord here is an article from internet college fjord is a fjord located in the northern sector of prince william sound in the u s state of alaska the fjord contains five tidewater glaciers glaciers that terminate in water five large valley glaciers and dozens of smaller glaciers most named after renowned east coast colleges women s colleges for the nw side and men s colleges for the se side college fjord was discovered in 1899 during the harriman expedition at which time the glaciers were named the expedition included a harvard and an amherst professor and they named many of the glaciers after elite colleges according to bruce molina author of alaska s glaciers they took great delight in ignoring princeton 1 in 1964 college fjord was the epicenter of the good friday earthquake the most powerful earthquake in u s history it is a popular destination for cruise ships from one place it is possible to see eight of college fjords glaciers at once breathtaking scenery grandma said now we can see the glaciers so you d better take some pictures so i went to the deck in their cabin and wow i was awestruck by this breathtaking scenery it was sooo beautiful that i couldn t stop taking pictures harvard glacier harvard we had a naturalist on board the whole trip she talked about the history of places wildlife of southeastern alaska and she watched for wildlife and let people know through pa system where we can see them here she announced that she spotted an otter i got so excited because i really really wanted to see otters however he was so far away i couldn t even see very good through zoom lens but this is definitely an otter see below scott blew up the picture there it is it is an otter harvard glacier harvard yale glacier harvard glacier on the left and yale glacier on the right this is the very front of the ship nicely frames the amazing view don t you think posted by nobuko at 7 46 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom blog archive 2012 5 august 5 alaska here we come part 1 vancouver alaska here we come part 2 cruise alaska here we come part 3 whittier to fairb alaska here we come part 4 fairbanks alaska here we come part 5 kids football about me nobuko view my complete profile watermark theme powered by blogger