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Day 218: Juneau, part 3

Sunday, August 24, 2014

Here is our first glimpse of Mendenhall Glacier. The Dailylife Wife walks down to the shore. Juneau is a lush place… Off to the right about a mile is a BIG waterfall.  Those little spots? …People… There are spotting scopes to view the glacier through in the Visitor’s Center. The View. A nice view of […]

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Day 217: Juneau, part 2

Sunday, August 24, 2014

Next we went to the Glacier Botanical Gardens.  This was a landslide a guy named Steve recreated into a Botanical Garden to reclaim the area and prevent another slide! Besides being very lush and colorful (and wet…), Steve had another great idea!  He takes trees, with roots still attached, and plants them in the ground […]

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Day 214: Juneau, part 1

Friday, August 22, 2014

Yup.  They change the day on the elevator rug to let people have some idea of when it is…if they want to mess with you they just have to  “reorder” the week a little! A two photo panorama from the top deck of our damp morning.  This is also a nice view of the moveable […]

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Day 213: Ketchikan, part 2

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Now on to the waterfront ride!  We passed a lot of boats in the harbor. Here are the three cruise ships from the water side!  The Amsterdam is to the right. Another view of the ships and the rain cover on the Duck. Here, as we drive out of the water, another Duck drives in. * […]

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Day 212: Back to the Cruise! Ketchikan, part 1

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Guess yet?   Our day in Ketchikan wasn’t completely rainy.  We had this much Sun, anyway! Some of the waterfront from the Lido Deck Buffet where we ate breakfast. An uncropped two photo panorama of the waterfront (mainly tourist traps, but fun!) where we docked and the gangway being installed, from the Promenade Deck.  (Click […]

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Day 210: At Sea

Thursday, August 14, 2014

What the heck is with the rugs?  I’ll tell you later.  It took me a couple of days.  There is potential for great mischief… We awoke on our first day at sea to fog. And live flowers at breakfast! This is a view of the pool on the Lido Deck.  It is looking back the […]

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Day 209: First Night

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

I find that late nights on Cruise Ships are great times to go up on deck. No one is there and there are some pretty neat photos waiting to be taken!  The light brown squares in the foreground are glass panels in a giant movable cover that closes over the Lido Deck pool during inclement […]

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Day 208: Wallpaper Bonus!

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Here are four wallpaper sized photographs of the sea.  I took them as were were leaving Seattle. (1/2000s f/4.0 ISO100 6mm (35mm eq:28mm) -1 stop Nikon Coolpix P7100) (1/2000s f/8.0 ISO100 42.6mm (35mm eq:200mm) -1 stop P7100) (1/2000s f/8.0 ISO100 42.6mm (35mm eq:200mm) -1 stop P7100) (1/1250s f/8.0 ISO100 42.6mm (35mm eq:200mm) -1/3 stop P7100) Curtis, Alaska […]

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Day 207: Almost started…

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

The floor of every elevator… After a bit we were even able to go to our stateroom.  It was small, but efficient. Then it was on to the lifeboat drill!  This was the one mandatory event on the ship: if you didn’t go to it they wouldn’t take you on the cruise! Then, since it […]

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Day 206: Goin’ Cruisin’!

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Well, we’re back from a fun filled two week cruise to Alaska!  It was a pretty good time, and as you will see, there were some incredible opportunities for photography!  But first we have to get on the boat… Anyone who frequents the I90 route to Seattle and Tacoma will recognize the Columbia River Gorge […]

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