On Friday, we docked in Ketchikan, AK. We didn't have very long there, but Stan and I took a two hour flight on a float plane over the Misty Fjords. This flight was much different from the small plane we took to the base of Mt. McKinley. Up there we saw the spectacular sights of the glaciers. In Ketchikan, we saw the beautiful sight of the remains after glaciers melted thousands of years ago. There were waterfalls running down cliffs at every turn, little peaceful lakes and ponds, and the trees were some of the biggest we've ever seen. We landed on one of the fjords (an inlet cut by a glacier that later fills with ocean) and watched a brown bear eating for awhile. It was so peaceful and pristine. Stan did loose his cookies on this flight, but we still enjoyed it!
On a side note, the show on board the boat Friday night included Broadway favorites, one of which was "Don't Rock the Boat." To my trained musical ears, the vocals weren't that good, but the dancing was pretty good. Anyway, I ended up getting a bout of seasickness on Sat. as our boat was doing to HEAVY rocking.
Saturday we spent all day at sea traveling down to Vancouver. Actually, we were looking on the virtual map on board the ship, and we had only traveled half of the distance to Vancouver by Friday. The other half was completed Saturday. On Saturday night, we saw the ventriloquist Mike Robinson. He was pretty funny with his "friend" Terrance.
Today, we got off the ship and picked up our rental car. We took the ferry over to Schwartz Bay on our our way over to Victoria, British Columbia. It's just gorgeous right now, including the first extended sunshine we've seen in over a week! We came here on our honeymoon ten years ago and loved it so much we decided to come back this trip.
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