We anchored off of Sitka in Sitka Sound at 8 A.M. this morning. Then we began "tendering in" as the saying goes. Tenders are the ship's smaller boats (life boats) that are used to transport passengers from ship to shore and back when there is no dock space or a dock large enough to handle large floating hotels like the Amsterdam. The tenders are operated by the Quartermaster. Quartermasters are experienced sailors who have been trained through out several years at sea in steering the "big ship" as well as the ship's tenders. John and I signed up for a [View Full Entry]

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Sitka, Alaska North America » United States » Alaska » Sitka By historianherb June 8th 2007 Herbert Abrams We have finally arrived at our first port of call which is Sitka Alaska. The cruise ship can't dock at Sitka so we hav [View Full Entry]

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Today was partly sunny with no rain and rather warm. Beautiful! We got to Sitka, AK on Baranof Island. Sitka is a small mostly fishing town. I think the local shop owners were a little dazed at the arrival of tourists. I ran into town to buy very expensive cigarettes from a machine at a smoky bar (the only place in town that sold cigarettes!), batteries for my camera and postcards. Pam, Mary and me also went to a small burger joint and had a great burger. We stopped back by later in the day for an espresso milkshake. MMM MMM! [View Full Entry]

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For our stop in Sitka, we decided to do what is one of the most reasonably priced tour in the entire Alaska catalog, the City Tour. Personally speaking, the city tour is worth the price of admission; in fact you get to see a lot and one would feel that another hour would be very well used. The City Tour (conducted on a School Bus) includes the Raptor Center, a stop at the National Park, a performance of the New Archangel Russian Dancers and at the Orthodox Church. I felt that I could spend another hour at the raptor center alone….it [View Full Entry]

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Forget injuries, never forget kingnesses.____Confucius Sunday, June 26, 2005, Sunday. At the center of downtown Sitka is a large Russian Orthodox Church. So we thought we would attend service there. However we didn’t realize it was two hours of standing. The decorative church is filled with silver and gold everything and is quite ornate. After a half hour we drifted out the doorway. We THOUGHT we would be on the ferry today going to Juneau, but someone got the day wrong. Our first clue was when we got to the dock and no one was there. We recouped and decided [View Full Entry]

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A person is only as good as what they love._______Saul Bellow June 24, 2005, Friday. The system of getting on and off the ferry is now down pat. Our campground is right next to the ferry dock, and 13 mile to downtown Sitka. We have not had any cell reception with Verizon, since WA. People with Cellular One are fine. Today was our first mail pick-up, everything went smoothly, thank you Jamie and Denise and Mike!! We walked around downtown. Sitka faces the Pacific Ocean. The waters offshore are broken by a myriad of small-forested islands, which are [View Full Entry]

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