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Looks like a fog-covered-mountain or something.
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Yep, definitely a fog-covered-mountain. An Alaskan fog-covered-mountain.
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And another.
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And another.
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I'm sure this is the "Strait of Something Cool", but I don't remember what.
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Yet another pool.
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A waterfall.
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Juneau appears out of the fog...
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Juneau is getting closer...
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Almost at Juneau, looking south.
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Cool clouds.
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Downtown Juneau.
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Cool floatplanes parked in front of the cruise ship terminal.
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The people on the Holland ship had to ferry back and forth to the dock in the little boat in the bottom right corner. Bummer.
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Float plane going somewhere.
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More downtown Juneau.
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I can't find good Mexican food in Seattle to save my life. This place in Juneau is quite good, though.
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Our ride.
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Big, huh?
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That guy looks just like me.
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Out on the water going whale watching.
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No whales yet.
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It was chilly out on the water.
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Julia!
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Julia, with her best friend (coffee).
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Our first sea creatures! Sea lions fighting to get on the bouy.
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More guys going whale-watching.
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Still more...
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There be whales here!
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I like this one.
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These dudes are big.
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Thar she blows!
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Julia taking a picture of me taking a picture of her.
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Julia gettin' whale shots.
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Purty, ain't it?
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Nice
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Out of the blue, six whales came up right next to our boat. You could almost reach out and touch them.
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I know, it's a lot of whale tails...
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Our whale guide told us this lighthouse is scheduled to become a bed and breakfast. Cool! I could wake up to this view for a long time without getting tired of it.
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A pretty sailboat in the distance.
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When I get a boat, I want a boat like this.
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Pretty decent, yes?
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The Mendenhall Glacier.
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There's an eagle there in the middle if you look closely. I had my 17-35mm lens with me at the time we went by this guy, and couldn't zoom in any closer.
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Julia ran down to grab a longer lens for me, but by then, it was too late.
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We ended up seeing so many bald eagles in AK, it started to get kind of old. Never thought that would happen.
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Mr. Eagle decides he likes that other tree over there better.
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Man, what I wouldn't have given to have had my 500mm lens with me right then...
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This dude flew over shortly after Julia brought me a long lens. You can see all the dust on my CCD. Time to take the camera in for the annual cleaning...
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Almost back to the doc.
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Our bus broke down on the way back to the ship, so we stopped here for a bit. That's the glacier again in the background. At least it was a pretty place to be stuck.
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Julia caught me using the old camera. I brought my ancient Nikon FM2 as a backup to the D1x. I figured that if I used both, I could lose either my digital pictures or my film pictures, and still come home with neat stuff.
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Julia playing with some macro shots.
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Here's the sign with info about the glacier.
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Finally back in Juneau after they sent another bus and a mechanic to fetch us.
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This is the Roberts Tram. I should remember how high it is, but I don't. It was made in France. After having worked on French cars before, "Made in France" means "Danger, designed by idiots" to me.
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On the way up.
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Cool view through the rain.
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Ok, this was a failed attempt to get a picture of the cool trees as we went up.
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Slightly better, but still a poor picture.
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The tram driver and a couple other passengers.
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The whole way up, I kept thinking about the James Bond movie where Roger Moore fights with the huge guy on top of the cable car gondola.
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Cool view up the valley.
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Looking back down the way we came. Cool, eh?
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The view from the top was awesome.
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The woods sure were pretty up on top of the hill.
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Our ship from the top.
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Beware of the blob.
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There were tons of float planes coming and going. Warning, way too many float plane pictures to follow...
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