Day 27 Out To sea. Today we are going out to sea to see the Kenai Glacier .or so we thought. We arrived at the boat harbour office to be told that because of high sea the trip had been cancelled and a alternative trip was organised. This would be a 5 hr trip around Bay Resurrection . This had a lot of part Glaciers plus the 3 prong Bear Glacier.again the weather is not kind ,although not raining it overcast and dull. In saying this the cruise was still quite enjo...

Days 25 &26 Tonights blog is 2 days in one as both are moving days. Saturday we are up at 5 o'clock have to catch a plane at 7.10 but need to be at the airport by 6 because Of security reasons.plane left on time again ,maybe Australia can learn that things can run on time without to much fuss. We arrived in Anchorage 1 1/2 hrs later. We back to our normal manner of arrival, someone was there to pick us up. Rooms will not be ready to 2.30 so we drop the ba...

Day 24 The Mendenhall Glacier, Today was the first lay in we have been able to have ,so rising at 9.30 seemed very weird for me. We finally leave the room about 10.30 and headed downtown to find a shuttle to us to the Glacier , but they all want to charge $45 per person for a 11k trip . We worked out that if we took the local bus towards the airport ,in the loop it would take us within 2.5 k walk of the Glacier so that's what we did. Again the colours of the Gl...

Day 23 Tracy Arm Fjord today was an early start as it would take 3 hrs to reach our destinations . We climb aboard the The captain cook , a boat that would take us there ,there is a pic of her. On our way we were greeted by cloudy skies , and sunny which made it hard to dress appropriately. In the three hrs trip we lucky to see hump back whales and eventually plenty of sun ,this allow our photos to better than we first expected. On the way in we observed two po...

Day 22 Today we leave wet old Wrangell where have enjoyed our stay at a fabulous B&B The Grand View and head to Juneau by plane. The plane leaves on time ,we are up in the air for 9 minutes and we land again at the small town of Petersburg ,20 minutes Pass the plane lets passengers off ,unloads cargo new passengers get on and we Of again ,this time the plane is in the air for 20 minutes and now we are landing in Juneau. The whole flight took an hour crazy . ...