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    • Travelerchilly summer nights.
      Day 271

      Spontanious (Suprise) Glacier Water Tour

      September 24, 2019 ⋅ ☁️ 5 °C

      We actually wanted to go hike. But then we met a couple who told us about this (way to expensive, but really amazing) boat trip the the glaciers. So we changed our plans and went on a cruise catamaran to see some sea-otters, sea lions, seals, a black bear and massive glaciers reaching out into the water. We were lucky and could go so close to the Harvard Glacier. Then Surprise Glacier and 24 others on our way. We saw them calving. We tried the ice.
      What a change of plans and, wow. What a day.
      And not enough. While heading to Homer afterwards we saw a moose and a moose-cow. Nearly too much for one day 🙈😄 but, yes, I’d do it again. ☺️
      *****
      Eigentlich wollten wir wandern gehen. Aber dann trafen wir zwei Personen, die am Tag zuvor eine (viel zu teure, aber so beeindruckend schöne) Gletscher-Cruise-Bootsfahrt gemacht hatten. Also waren wir kurze Zeit später auf eine risigen Edel-Katamaran und beobachteten See-Otter (wie süß!!!!😍), Seelöwen, Robben, einen Schwarzbären und unendlich große, massive Gletscher, die bis ins Wasser reichten. Wir hatten Glück und konnten ganz nah an dem Harvard-Gletscher ran, danach zum Surprise-Gletscher und dazwischen 24 weitere. Wir haben sehen können, wie sie kalbten und haben das Eis gekostet. Was für eine Tagesplanänderung!
      Und als wäre das nicht genug, sahen wir noch einen Elch und eine Elchkuh auf der Fahrt hinterher. Fast zu viel für einen Tag. 🙈😄
      Aber ich würde es wieder so machen. ☺️      Read more

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    • Around the World
      Day 162

      And now"A Little Japanese Potty Posting"

      June 25, 2023 ⋅ 🌬 46 °F

      As we leave Japan, Karen can’t help but post about the Japanese Bathrooms. We both loved them. We have posted some of the many varieties of bathrooms. One thing for sure is that wherever you go, no matter day or night, whatever size the bathroom facility, it will provide everything you need in a clear concise manner:

      - Spotless 24x7
      - Everything is well labeled and with good directions (good thing since it since it’s in Japanese). SOS is clear.
      - Bathrooms are beautiful in the terminal, on the train tracks, in a restaurant, in a mall … everywhere
      - Yes the Sinks, Toilets, and Bidets are all in perfect working order with dryers built into many of the sinks (the only thing I saw in one bathroom was an “out of order” garbage can - that’s because everyone seems to take their garbage with them)
      - Control panel in All Bathroom Stalls - for flushing, for sound control (for privacy and “noise control”), for control of washing the “parts” front and/or back and of course you can control the intensity of these operations
      - In the ladies’ room there is a “little boys urinal”
      - Separate seat cleaners
      - Clear icons, a changing table, a place for the toddler to sit strapped in while waiting for you, all bathrooms are handicapped accessible, in braille too, plenty of counter space, a supply of toilet paper and soap always, and hands-free flushing.
      - Need I go on?      Read more

    • Around the World
      2
      Day 164

      Around the World Brunch #3

      June 27, 2023 ⋅ ☁️ 46 °F

      For the third and last time we had a brunch for the Around the World Team. Maybe it was all the champagne, but it sure seemed that they went even further this time to make it special.

      Yes, there were every type of breakfast offering you could imagine and many lunch options (although there were even more items that couldn’t fit on the menu) but there were additionally more desserts than ever.

      What a great idea to seat us right next to the desserts so I didn’t even have to get up … only reach over for some more sugar. At one point, the Executive Chef reached over and gave me an entire tray of napoleons … how generous and we also polished off the bounty cake, giving Krista and Tim the bow to celebrate their 48th anniversary (the first time … since they had 2 days of celebration because of the IDL).

      The meal was highlighted by the Panache String Quartet only a few feet away … making it very pleasant to eat and drink and talk and listen to music and have cappuccinos and REPEAT from 10-2p!

      PS Loved the traditional croque-monsieur!      Read more

    • Around the World
      Day 168

      Havdalah Dinner- The Last Saturday night

      July 1, 2023 ⋅ 🌧 48 °F

      After 25 weeks of facilitating our Friday night Shabbat Services in the intimate library here on the ship, I thought it would be nice to celebrate Havdalah together as a group and have a Shabbat Dinner.

      Of course it came the same evening of our Rough Waters Slow Going (7/1) storm when many people did not make it out of their room for 24-48 hours. That being said, we still had a great group of 20+ friends who took on the challenge to come to dinner and try to have a Havdalah Service in the middle of a lout dining room. Oh, did I mention that we had to make do by getting cinnamon powder from breakfast for our spices, wine was easy- I had 4 left over bottles of Manischewitz but the candle required creativity in that we cannot have open flames (the electric candle would have shorted out so we had a good friend, Mui “paint” us a candle to use). It was a great experience as they even supplied fresh challah (why not?).

      Havdalah was followed by a beautiful full dinner. Of course broiled chicken was available in addition to the many other entrees offered.      Read more

    • RTW Redux ... 2023
      Day 203

      At Sea … NOT in Kodiak

      July 2, 2023 ⋅ ☁️ 50 °F

      It took practically most of today, but finally — at past 8:30p — we have made enough headway into the Gulf of Alaska that we are a little north of Kodiak now. Explains why the Captain felt he had to cancel Kodiak as a port of call if we were to make Seward tomorrow.

      After being rocked to sleep, we woke up to slightly calmer seas this morning. When I looked at the Bridge Report around noon, it described the sea state as being 11.5 feet … better than 13-15 feet. The skies started out overcast, but actually brightened for a while this afternoon. We even had some blue patches overhead. Now, we are cloaked by fog that seems to be getting thicker by the minute. Visibility is very poor. The fog horn is being sounded periodically.

      Nothing else to report from an otherwise quiet, unexpected day at sea.      Read more

    • RTW Redux ... 2023
      Day 205

      At Sea: En Route to Hubbard Glacier

      July 4, 2023 ⋅ ☁️ 54 °F

      Happy 4th of July to our US readers … on and off the ship.

      Today we get to see a glacier we’ve not seen before.

      But first, we are spending much of the day at sea to get there for our designated entry time. I understand there are 6 ships visiting the glacier today, and entries are timed to avoid “traffic congestion.”

      We had a busy morning … the highlights of which were the taking of the official RTW2023 photo on the pool deck, for which the sun cooperated beautifully (thanks Cella for a “preview copy), and lunch with OCA Cella, and fellow passengers David and Roger. That a hilarious lunch ensued goes without saying.      Read more

    • Around the World
      2
      Day 168

      Sea Day - Rough Waters, Slow Going

      July 1, 2023 ⋅ 🌧 48 °F

      Friday 6-30-23 Late evening thru Saturday 7-1-23
      We left Dutch Harbor 30 minutes early yesterday due to expected bad weather that was coming. The waves started to pickup last night before bedtime. We went to sleep looking forward to a busy day at sea before we got to the next 5 Alaskan ports. As they say, “the weather started getting rough, the tiny ship was tossed”. We were up much of the night as we rocked forward, backward and side to side.

      The rocking and rolling and the swaying began, and the listing continued all night. No one had a good a nights sleep ... some of us finally fell to sleep early in the morning just to wake up a few hours later feeling pretty woozy. The activities for the day were almost all cancelled. Room service became very popular.

      Then the Captain came on the Emergency Messaging System. He told us about the STORM and GALE FORCE WARNING and then explained why we were not getting to Kodiak, Alaska tomorrow. The plan is to skip Kodiak and go right to Seward, Alaska and get there early Monday morning.

      Currently and most of the day and night were experiencing 15+ foot waves with winds of 50+ knots. We were going a very slow but steady 6 knots to avoid any extra rolling. Thinking good thoughts as this is the worst of the weather we have had in 6 months … even worse than Drakes Passage.

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    • Transpacific Cificapsnart
      Day 12

      Sea Day 5

      April 18 ⋅ 🌬 39 °F

      Mom and I slept in late due to the constant clock changing. The weather is pretty rough.

      Scratch that. It feels like the boat is gonna tip over. The Jewel is one of the smaller ships in NCL. The gale warning that kept us from docking at Dutch Harbor caught up with us. The rocking woke us up and was so violent we could only sit up for a minute or two before seasickness smacked us.

      The majority of the day was spent flat on our backs to keep from barfing. Mom ventured out for about five minutes. I managed to get up to the 13th floor for pictures. The elevator kept clanking back and forth.

      The video of the ship’s bow looked like something out of Deadliest Catch. And it snowed!

      Finally just after midnight things settled down enough for us to move around again.      Read more

    • TravelerAlaska Cruise
      Day 8

      Nebel, Graupel, all worth it

      July 22, 2022 ⋅ 🌧 8 °C

      Wir nähern uns nun immer mehr der nächsten Gletscher-Attraktion. 1899 wurden die Gletscher nach berühmten Colleges benannt („Harvard-Glacier“ usw.).
      Leider war das Wetter nicht ganz nach meinem Geschmack. Es graupelte (englisch: sleeting).

      Mark, unser Naturalist brauchte es auf den Punkt:
      „This is Alaska, this is why nobody lives here 😂
      The more you drink the more animals you see. So drink away, you gonna need some to see some animals today.“

      Doch Mark, der die live Moderation machte, blieb guter Dinge. Er erzählte uns, dass es recht wahrscheinlich ist, dass es aufklaren wird, denn durch die Kälte des Gletschers entsteht ein Mikroklima, was den Regen verdrängt. Na mal sehen 😂      Read more

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    • Alaska Cruise
      Day 3

      Hubbard Glacier

      June 12, 2023 ⋅ ☁️ 6 °C

      We sailed all night and all morning across the northeast corner of the open Pacific Ocean. The seas and winds were favorable, though not exactly calm. I was awakened several times over the night by that old, familiar motion of the seas aboard a ship. That ponderous movement, as she rides up to the crest of a swell, that sense of the deck moving away from you as she drops down the other side, that slight shudder as the weight of the ship encounters the next swell and her downward movement is arrested. All accompanied by the low omnipresent growl of the engines propelling you ever forward.

      I found the next morning that while the motion may be familiar, my sea-legs are 20 years out of practice. It took me until mid-morning before I stopped weaving back and forth down the passageways. By lunchtime we had come close to land and entered a narrow fjord, and soon we were face-to-face with a massive wall of ice. Hubbard Glacier. We stood at the bow as the glacier emerged from the mist, the cold air sharp in our nostrils. The water was calm, clouds hung low over the snow-kissed hills. Small icebergs littered the area between us and the glacier which stood across the water like a blue-white dam, giving proof of the dynamic process that calves these bergs from their mother.      Read more

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