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August 3rd 2008

Published: August 11th 2008

After taking so many pictures (OVER 1400), just a few to give you a feel of what Canada & Alaska is about. I have tried to place the photos in an approximate order of the places that we visited. The whales were a definite highlight of holiday, especially the humpbacks breaching in the bay off Juneau. There were so many places to see and it was great that we were on an organised tour. Our guide Je... Read Full Entry

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Mule Deer

On our walk back to the Jasper Park Lodge, we spotted this deer

Bear Cub

We came across this cub eating dandelions on the side of the road on the way to Sun Peaks. Its mother was on the other side of the road

Mount Robson

The classic Mount Robson where we had the group photograph

Choose your transport (Vancouver)

The view from the harbour where planes and boats competed for bits of the water

Government Buidings (Victoria)

Nearly all the shops had postcards like this. Looked spectacular

Mile

This is where either the Trans Canadian highway starts or ends!!!!

Butchart Gardens

Early morning at the gardens created by the Butchart family. The different gardens were set in an old worked out limestone quarry

Orca whale off Victoria Island

Our first whale watching trip had us drifting with a pod of Orca whales. Fabulous

Canada Place (Sailaway)

Sailed from here on Sunday 22nd June, a fabulous 'sailaway' with G & T's in hand

Sailaway Vancouver

Into English bay and into a glorious Sunset

Norwegian Sun (Topside Bar)

The bar by the pool, it didnt always look so inviting once the rain & wind had set in

Ketchikan

Our first port of call, Ketchikan. It did nothing but rain but we only walked into town for a quick look round

Lecture time!!!

We went to a couple of lectures by this guy. Kent Brakken (call me Ken). Interesting!!!

En route to Juneau

Arty shot on the way to Juneau

Humpback Whale (Mother)

We saw some great performances by Humpbacks, breaching like this adult female.

Humpback Whale (Juvenile)

This was the baby, obviously trying to out do its mother

Humpback diving off Juneau

Lin thought this was the tail shot she had travelled so far to see. I agree!!

Ahoy! Icebergs

Leaving Juneau we sailed towards the Dawson glacier. Icebergs were all over the place!!

Dawson glacier (Endicott Arm)

The ship came to within a few hundred yards of the face of the glacier. Pretty awesome!!

Downtown Skagway

Population 800, but not on the day we were there. More like 8000

Skagway towards the ships

We took the White Pass Yukon Railway up to White Pass. Looking back you can see the ships docked in Skagway

22nd July 2011

Nancy & Lynn
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AWESOME
Hi Al, My sister and I went on a similar cruise to Alaska....the pictures look just like what we saw....It was beautiful and your pictures are awesome!

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