Day 3 of Living on the deck of a ferry

Another early, cold start but there’s a good coffee machine on board. The ferry heads through some tight narrows and sharp bends before arriving at Sitka.

We hear the ferry dock is 9 miles outside town. That’s disgusting, can’t walk 18 miles in 2 hours. Hooray, there’s a bus coming to pick everyone up. Ok it’s $10 per person return but sometimes you have to pay.

The bus drops us in the town and we mooch around the shops. These are shops for cruise ship passengers, tourist tat. Simon buys a Tshirt.

The shuttle gets us back to the ferry and we head off again, towards Juneau. It’s a beautiful day, clear skies and the sun is warm. The snow capped mountains are clear. There’s a few whales 🐋 and porpoises 🐬 to be seen.

By early evening we arrived in Juneau. Lots of peon and off the ferry but not us yet. Ours is the next stop, 3.15am. The alarm is set for 2.30am, hopefully we can pack everything away quickly and get somewhere warm.Read more