Juneau what?
So the one thing we just had to do in Juneau was Tracy Arm - a nearby waterway with spectacular scenery and wildlife. We arranged a trip down the Arm and hauled ourselves out of bed at 6:30 am.
We joined 40-odd other adventurous types aboard the "Adventure Bound" in search of animals and glacial activity. Despite breaking down for a half-hour or so we eventually nosed towards the glacier though heavy pack ice and onlooking harbour seals. It took a while, but eventually we got near enough to Sawyer glacier to hear it cracking and splitting. Everyone was transfixed as the huge wall of blue ice creaked and groaned. Eventually a pinnacle of the glacier's face tumbled into the fjord with an almighty crash closely followed by the surrounding wall. The seals looked on unimpressed.
After an hour or so watching the glacier, we nosed our way back out towards home past the lazy seals and eventually into open water again. On our way back home we trailed a humpback whale, watching him play around for a while before he disappeared. We got back home and collapsed in a heap. On our third and final day here, we stocked up for the three-day journey back to Washington and watched a few movies. Instead of getting an early night and getting up at 3 am we just stayed up until it was time to leave. We're so rock 'n' roll.
Get back to you when we're back in Seattle.
We joined 40-odd other adventurous types aboard the "Adventure Bound" in search of animals and glacial activity. Despite breaking down for a half-hour or so we eventually nosed towards the glacier though heavy pack ice and onlooking harbour seals. It took a while, but eventually we got near enough to Sawyer glacier to hear it cracking and splitting. Everyone was transfixed as the huge wall of blue ice creaked and groaned. Eventually a pinnacle of the glacier's face tumbled into the fjord with an almighty crash closely followed by the surrounding wall. The seals looked on unimpressed.
After an hour or so watching the glacier, we nosed our way back out towards home past the lazy seals and eventually into open water again. On our way back home we trailed a humpback whale, watching him play around for a while before he disappeared. We got back home and collapsed in a heap. On our third and final day here, we stocked up for the three-day journey back to Washington and watched a few movies. Instead of getting an early night and getting up at 3 am we just stayed up until it was time to leave. We're so rock 'n' roll.
Get back to you when we're back in Seattle.
posted by Iff at
3:05 am
2 Comments:
Not long till you're back in the UK now!
Haha - I'll get a warning in with immigration now. Travelling non tax paying hippies are no longer allowed into this country. You may have to stay in some bohemian part of France or maybe liberal Holland.
3-4 weeks and you'll be back - weird huh? What will you post about then? Kalpna!?
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Anonymous, At
3:54 am
Heaven forbid you stay in France - I hear they'd eat feral cat if it had been stuffed with enough garlic. As for Holland I hear that if you stay longer than a day you become a crack addict, start thinking clogs are comfortable and dream all day long of fields of tullips.
GOOD LUCK getting into the UK. The other option seems to be a slow painful death.
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Anonymous, At
3:58 am
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