Left Ketchikan yesterday and sailed up the Inland Passage. During the evening, we had dinner at the Savoy Dining Room and generally just relaxed after a good day of walking and touring around Ketchikan. Later on, we went to the International Talent Show put on by the crew. There are over 1100 crew members from more than 50 countries aboard the ship taking care of the 2670 passengers. The show was a good display of their talents. The Cruise Director’s staff put on a amusing finale. This morning we entered Tracy Arm – a 25 mile fjord between Ketchikan and Juneau. We sailed up to see the most fantastic scenery, a combination of mountains, glaciers, waterfalls, icebergs. It was just a gorgeous area. According to the narrator on the local channel, even John Muir called it more beautiful than Yosemite to which it bears a remarkable resemblance. We got within a half-mile of the glacier before the Captain turned the ship around. Lot of ice floating in the Arm. Water is over 1000 feet deep, but we had to pass over a bar which had only fifty-foot clearance at the beginning. After we leave Tracy Arm, we’ll head north to Juneau.
We're now in Juneau and I'm sitting in the local library catching up on e-mail and getting this blog out. then it's out to explore the town.
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