Canada & Alaska Summer 2019

heinäkuuta - elokuuta 2019

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Matkaaja Canada & Alaska Summer 2019
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- Lisää toivelistallePoista toivelistalta
- Jaa
- 26.7.2019 klo 12.39
- ☀️ 26 °C
- Korkeus: 43 m
- Yhdysvallat Washington King County Belltown Chihuly Garden and Glass 47.6204, -122.3508747°37’13” N 122°21’3” W
Päivä 11
Seattle Space Needle
26. heinäkuuta 2019, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Back up at street level, and in extraordinary heat, we walked through more if the historic buildings of Pioneer Square, along the harbour and to the Space Needle. We grabbed a quick lunch in the Armory here before abandoning walking and instead taking
the monorail back to downtown. The Nest roof top in the Thompson Hotel overlooks the harbour which looked glorious in the sunshine as we partook in a cheeky afternoon pint before returning to the hotel to get out of the heat!Lue lisää
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Matkaaja Canada & Alaska Summer 2019
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- Jaa
- 26.7.2019 klo 19.00
- ☀️ 27 °C
- Korkeus: 12 m
- Yhdysvallat Washington King County Yesler Terrace Safeco Field 47.59088, -122.3319647°35’27” N 122°19’55” W
Päivä 11
Mariners vs. Detroit Tigers
26. heinäkuuta 2019, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
After a quick hotel stop, we had dinner at a local brewery near our hotel in the university district before catching the train to T-mobile park for some baseball. Our seats were superb, giving views of the Seattle skyline and the iconic Space Needle with the pitch below us. The match was hard fought, 2-0 to Tigers for much of it before being drawn level. In the end it came right down to the last ball of the 9th inning for the Mariners to snatch a victory.

Post-match, there was a "Hall of Fame " fireworks display which was spectacular.

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Matkaaja Canada & Alaska Summer 2019
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- Jaa
- 27.7.2019 klo 21.50
- ⛅ 18 °C
- Korkeus: Merenkorkeus
- Kanada British Columbia Strathcona Regional District Quathiaski Cove 50.03511, -125.2239950°2’6” N 125°13’26” W
Päivä 12
The Inside Passage
27. heinäkuuta 2019, Kanada ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
We returned the car to Vancouver, passing through the US-Canadian border. Once we dropped our bags at the ship, we headed into town to buy some Lindt chocolate and have a hot chocolate at the Lindt Cafe and enjoy a beer flight at the Tap and Barrel on the waterfront.

Once on board we learned two things: 1) the ship is almost exactly like the Diamond Princess we were on in Japan. 2) we were going up something called the 'Inside Passage'. This meant we weren't going around Vancouver Island and into the sea, but through the channels and inlets to be surrounded by land! We were also lucky enough that despite booking an inside cabin, we'd been given one with a window! So we enjoyed some food and trivia, before enjoying a very late sunset.Lue lisää
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Matkaaja Canada & Alaska Summer 2019
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- Jaa
- 29.7.2019 klo 4.57 UTC
- ⛅ 14 °C
- Korkeus: Merenkorkeus
- Coastal Waters Of Southeast Alaska And British Columbia 53.56398, -130.8302853°33’50” N 130°49’49” W
Päivä 14
At sea
29. heinäkuuta 2019 ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
The first day of the trip was at sea. So we had breakfast in bed, played (and lost) every game of trivia on the boat, and generally enjoyed a relaxing day with a couple of talks from the on board naturalist. The evening was most notable - we decided to go to the gym and whilst I was on a cross-trainer, we saw a whale of the starboard side of the ship!!Lue lisää
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Matkaaja Canada & Alaska Summer 2019
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- 29.7.2019 klo 9.00
- ☁️ 12 °C
- Korkeus: 17 m
- Yhdysvallat Alaska Ketchikan Gateway Borough Mountain Point 55.29434, -131.5483155°17’40” N 131°32’54” W
Päivä 14
Snorkelling in Alaska
29. heinäkuuta 2019, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
Ketchikan, a small port town of 12,000 people, can sometimes double in population with up to seven cruise ships in port in a day. On disembarking we caught a glimpse of the Alutian Ballard, a Deadliest Catch ship (but actually in port as an excursion for passengers). We however had to be on the dockside before 7am to get a bus to our snorkelling site.

Driving around 15 minutes south of Ketchikan to Mountain Point, we were kitted up in 7mm wet suits, booties, hoods, gloves and masks before venturing into the Alaskan Pacific Ocean - really! These guys really know what they are doing however and within minutes of being in the water we were toasty warm. They guided us around the bay, talking about and showing us the marine life - seastars, urchins, cucumbers and crabs. It was a bit surreal swimming amongst so many jellyfish but we were assured we were safe unless it was the red-orange Lion's Mane jellyfish...we saw three of them! Before we headed back to change we had an "Alaskan sauna" - a tub full of very warm water tipped down our wetsuits! On the way back, (and indeed whilst we were in the water) we saw SO many bald eagles, which was hugely exciting!

Back in the town proper, we wander the historic centre and Creek Street looking at the mass of salmon swimming upstream. The damp drizzly day coupled with the floods of tourists and shops touting tat to them made for a somewhat false experience though. So we retired for a beer and some Alaskan salmon before getting back on the boat to journey to the state capital of Juneau.Lue lisää
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Matkaaja Canada & Alaska Summer 2019
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- 29.7.2019 klo 19.52
- ☁️ 12 °C
- Korkeus: Merenkorkeus
- Yhdysvallat Alaska Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, Alaska Round Island 56.322, -133.1029656°19’19” N 133°6’11” W
Päivä 14
Whales
29. heinäkuuta 2019, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
As we navigated the narrowest part of our journey from Ketchikan to Juneau, we were treated to some whale watching of humpback whales from the starboard side of the ship. About half a dozen in all, we even saw some of their tails and were remarkably close to the land either side of the passage!Lue lisää
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Matkaaja Canada & Alaska Summer 2019
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- Jaa
- 30.7.2019 klo 10.38
- ☀️ 14 °C
- Korkeus: 6 m
- Yhdysvallat Alaska Juneau City and Borough Tsantikihin (historical)Juneau Downtown Historic District 58.2991, -134.4050658°17’57” N 134°24’18” W
Päivä 15
Alaska Capitol Building
30. heinäkuuta 2019, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
Off the ship at Juneau and a short walk through town, we went to visit the Alaskam State Capitol building. A chap called Kirk kindly guided just Ben and I around in a whistlestop tour of the building and the legislative chambers, where Sarah Palin was once governor.Lue lisää
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Matkaaja Canada & Alaska Summer 2019
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- 30.7.2019 klo 11.58
- ⛅ 15 °C
- Korkeus: 4 m
- Yhdysvallat Alaska Juneau City and Borough Fish Creek (historical)Cove Creek 58.32333, -134.6183358°19’24” N 134°37’6” W
Päivä 15
Mendenhall Glacier Canoeing
30. heinäkuuta 2019, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
A quick bus trip from the ship, we kitted up and headed out on to a lake to view the Mendenhall Glacier from a sea kayak. We had one of Juneau's 40 days of annual sunshine with us and before we had even launched a little seal was poking his head up on the water.

We kayaked around the lake with great views of the glacier and surrounding countryside, although not as close as we would have hoped, and watched birds diving for fish.

Back on dry land, we were treated to a bald eagle flying from a nearby tree!Lue lisää
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Matkaaja Canada & Alaska Summer 2019
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- Jaa
- 30.7.2019 klo 21.27
- ⛅ 15 °C
- Korkeus: Merenkorkeus
- Yhdysvallat Alaska Juneau City and Borough Douglas Lawson Creek 58.28785, -134.4021558°17’16” N 134°24’8” W
Päivä 15
Leaving Juneau
30. heinäkuuta 2019, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Aside from the state house and kayaking, we spent our day exploring the breweries of Juneau before watching a glorious sunset from the stern of the ship as we sailed back down the Gastinaeu Channel for Skagway.Lue lisää
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Matkaaja Canada & Alaska Summer 2019
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- Jaa
- 31.7.2019 klo 16.09
- ⛅ 22 °C
- Korkeus: 651 m
- Kanada British Columbia Wynton Creek 60.00087, -134.6610860°0’3” N 134°39’40” W
Päivä 16
Yukon Ho!
31. heinäkuuta 2019, Kanada ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
We arrived early in Skagway but with no excursions booked took the opportunity to have a lie in. We strolled the streets of this Klondike gold rush town, restored to its gold rush hey-day with many buildings restored by the National Parks Service. Walking out of town, along the railroad and river, we then returned and picked up a tour by bus through the winding mountains and valleys that went all the way to the Yukon!

The four-hour tour took in spectacular scenery and we were lucky enough to have the weather with us and a great bus driver who was an excellent guide talking about the Skagway, the legend of Soapy Sam and the history of the gold rush.Lue lisää
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