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Alaska Cruise 2024

July 2024, aboard Holland America

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Vancouver

Flew to Vancouver and boarded the Holland America cruise ship, Konigsdam

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View from hotel in Vancouver
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Vancouver (from hotel)
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My ship, the Konigsdam, run by Holland America
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My ship, the Konigsdam, run by Holland America
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The cruise route
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Vancouver (from hotel)
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Dock at Canada Place (where cruise ships dock)
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my room
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my room had a small veranda
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Some of the entertainment (trivia quizzes were popular)
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These two would take requests for songs
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Odd sculpture of a ship / cello

Animals

Eagles, Whales, etc. Most of these were taken from the Aleutian Ballad

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Bald Eagle in Ketchikan
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Bald Eagle in Ketchikan
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Bald Eagle in Ketchikan
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Killer whales (adult and calf)
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Killer whale
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Killer whale
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seagull resting on ice chunk
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A scary brown bear
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Bald Eagle (best)
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Humpback Whale

Saxman Totem Park

A collection of preserved and restored totem poles

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Saxman Totem Park (near Ketchikan)
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Saxman Totem Park (near Ketchikan)
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Saxman Totem Park (near Ketchikan)
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Saxman Totem Park (near Ketchikan)
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Saxman Totem Park (near Ketchikan)
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Saxman Totem Park (near Ketchikan)
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Saxman Totem Park (near Ketchikan)
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Saxman Totem Park (near Ketchikan)
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Saxman Totem Park (near Ketchikan)
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Saxman Totem Park (near Ketchikan)
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Saxman Totem Park (near Ketchikan)
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Saxman Totem Park (near Ketchikan)
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Saxman Totem Park (near Ketchikan)
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Saxman Totem Park (near Ketchikan)
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Saxman Totem Park (near Ketchikan)
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Saxman totem park
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Saxman Totem Park (near Ketchikan)
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Saxman totem park
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Saxman totem park

The Aleutian Ballad

Once featured on the show The Deadliest Catch (s2) the since damaged and repaired crab boat now gives tours and lectures about the crabbing industry

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me with the obligatory tourist photo
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Crab boat Aleutian Ballad
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Crab boat Aleutian Ballad, bringing up some fish from traps
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Crab boat Aleutian Ballad with king crab
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Crab boat Aleutian Ballad with king crab
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Crab boat Aleutian Ballad, bringing up some fish from traps
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Crab boat Aleutian Ballad, bringing up some fish from traps
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Crab boat Aleutian Ballad
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On board the Aleutian Ballad, crab boat featured in s2 of "The Deadliest Catch"
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Trap for small crabs
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Ketchikan (crab boat Aleutian Ballad in foreground)
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Crab boat Aleutian Ballad, turned into a tourist cruise after being damaged
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Crab boat Aleutian Ballad, me with small crabs

Glaciers

See them before they disappear!

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Mendenhall Glacier near Juneau
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Grand Pacific Glacier (in Bay)
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closeup of glacier (blue ice)
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Lamplugh Glacier (closeup)
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Lamplugh Glacier (in Glacier Bay)
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Mendenhall glacier
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me with glacier in backgroud
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Mendenhall glacier
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Reid Glacier (in Glacier Bay)
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Lamplugh Glacier (in Glacier Bay)

Train Ride in Skagway

Historic train route

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Train ride in Skagway
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Train ride in Skagway
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View from train in Skagway
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View from train in Skagway
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View from train in Skagway
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View from train in Skagway
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View from train in Skagway
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View from train in Skagway
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View from train in Skagway
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View from train in Skagway. That pipe feeds Skagway with fresh water from the glacial melt
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View from train in Skagway
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View from train in Skagway (waterfall)
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Some old bordello in Skagway
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Some old bordello in Skagway

Scenery

Some miscellaneous shots of the scenery

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snow covered mountains
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View from train in Skagway
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Just colorful sedimentary rocks in Glacier Bay
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Waterfall near Mendenhall Glacier
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Coastline forest with humpback whale in foreground

In Town(s)

We stopped in Juneau, Skagway, and Ketchikan. About 2 weeks after I was in Ketchikan, there was a huge landslide due to heavy rains

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Juneau (can only get there by sea or air since it is surrounded by an ice field)
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Juneau totem
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Whale watching boat
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train with rotary snowplow
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stuffed bear
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Wyatt Earp's pistol (they claim)
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Cruise ships

Miscellaneous

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seagull
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Killer whale
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Dock at Canada Place
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View from hotel, cranes to load freight ships
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View from train in Skagway
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my small veranda... nice to set out there when ship was just cruising to next stop
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cruise ships
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not a bad towel bear
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Me with Mendenhall glacier in backgroud
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Display in Vancouver airport
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Display in Vancouver airport
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statue commemorating soldiers fallen in WWI
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closeup of glacier (blue ice)

Miscellaneous

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Panoramic view of dock at Canada Place (where cruise ships dock)
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brochures
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food on board the Konigsdam
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me