24 June 2015 Ketchikan

24 June 2015: Ketchikan

This morning we are in for proper Alaska style weather, rainy, foggie, miserable!! Looks grim, sad!! But getting use to it so i am going to hit the streets again and go exsploring in this weather!! Out came the map and took another route to the Ketchikan Library so skipped heart brake hill called SCHOENBAR ROAD!!! Took me through another part of town through a neibourhood but did a little bit of cardio work, for in this place everything seems to be against a hill or going up steps unless you are next to the water. On my walk I came across this ugly looking brown snail and they were out in there numbers,all over.Was great to just be able to chill in the library with the amazing view,once I had cooled down after the walk, on came all the clothes again.Read in one of the old newspapers that a while back the police even arrested a passenger on one of the cruiseships for murdering 2 people somewhere  in the states,that was an eyeopener! Anyway  on my way back  I walked passed the lumber jack show grounds and there they were having fun with all the shouting and screaming.Last week one of the other crew members went and they said, was very intertaining.Have been lucky  with coming back to Ketchikan every week for I have seen lots of the town doing all the walking  routes.Back on board it was lunch and then back to my cabin with a full tummy!!Hopefully the weather will make a turn for some SUNSHINE.So until tomorrow bye.

25 Junie 2015: Juneau

Hubby off for the day so if a nice day, think he will be doing his run before we go walking about.Well that is what happened,he went for his run and I decided to walk into downtown.On my way I passed another two huge ships that were also in town,with another one docked further down so four in total for Juneau.Tourists everywhere!! Heard about the seaplane accident in Ketchikan which is terrible news but the weather in Ketchikan on Wednesday was awful, don’t know when the accident happened,so sad.On my way i passed the biggest ice machine I have ever seen,they call it the ice house and they have this huge pipe that spits ice into the plastic containers which they put the fish into.While I was waitng for hubby to come I also sat and watched a fishing trailer offloading its catch and must tell you, the skippie looks dodgy,would definitely not want to go to the seep sea in it!! After hubbys run we decided to visit the library so just went to chill for a while.On our way back to the ship I got to show him a few nice things I had seen when walking around on my own.Must say he behaved and did not complain once!!!Then it was time for a bite, the bed and the blue planket!!!

26 Junie 2015: Haines

Vanoggend toe ons wakker word en ons versonderste  is, om in Skagway te wees maar nog aan die seil is, toe weet ons ok,wat gaan nou aan.Nie lank daarna nie kon jy hoor die skip se thrusters wat hulle gebruik as ons draai of wegbeweeg van die kant  is aan,maar nogsteeds gedink ok is net laat. Later toe kom lig liefie my in dat ons glad nie vandag in Skagway kan dok nie agv baie sterk wind en oppad is na Haines vir die dag.So kla glad nie want was nog nooit daarso nie, exciting!!! Die kaptien het toe met ontbyt vir ons gese dat die wind 50 knope waai en dit te gevaarlik is en onmoontlik is om  in sulke wind te prober dok.Wel toe is dit HAINES Alaska vir die dag. Na ontbyt is ek buite op dek 11 en toe besef ek hierso waai die wind ook dat dit bars en is koud maar sal die weer moet trotseer want kry net die 1 kans om vandag die plek te besoek en te besigtig.So is vanoggend hier weg met liefie se waterdigte jas,mussie op die kop en my rugsak!! Vol moed en krag.Die dorpie self is so 15 minute se stap van waar ons gedok is maar gelukkig was die wind van agter en geen reen.In die dorp n hammer museum met 1600 hammers in, soos hulle se, dedicated to history of humanitys first tool,ek was nie in die maar het foto geneem ,toe is ek na die Bald Eagle Foundation se uitstalling en praaitjie(museum) .Daarso n pragtige uil gesien en baie opgestopde diere,iets van alles wat hulle hierso in die dele kry.Ook afgekom op die mooiste storie van n seun met cerebrale palsy wat betrek is by die vrylating van een van hulle beseerde eagles na rehabilitasie,dit is elke jaar n groot storie geleentheid  en soos hulle se die foto praat met jou ,spreek boekdele. Ek het ook nou net uit die bib n boek gevat met n storie oor n seun met cerebral palsy en dit lyk vir my hier kom n groot gehuilery.Boek se naam Knowing Jesse a story of grief,grace and everday bliss.(hulle se: this book will break your heart,make you angry,make you laugh,cry and chear,but most of all this book will lift you up) so ons sal sien,liefie se nee hy kan niks harstseer en sad meer vat of hoor nie,sag geraak! Wel ek het gestap en gestap en heeltamal te veel fotos geneem,het darem hier en daar n mooi een geneem so sal dit pos.Lyk my die Indiane was die eerste inwoners hierso en het in 1741 die eerste kontak met Russiese explorers gehad, wens partykeer mens kon terug kyk in geskiedenis en sien hoe dit in daardie tyd was.Hier is beslis meer sneeu op die berge om ons en lyk my hierso het tyd ook stil gaan staan.Het afgekom op n winkeltjie met die pragtigste tuin en groente tuin, so mengel moes van alles metdie grootste peonies wat ek nog ooit gesien het,asemrowend mooi,kon nie genoeg kyk,vat en ruik nie.Sal my fotos van hulle ook pos.Wel nou weer terug op die warm skip en uit die wind en weer,so bly het darem nie gereen nie anders was ek seker baie vroeer terug,is vanoggend so 9.30 uur hier weg en eers na 3 weer terug,stok flou en skoon styf gestap.Volgende 2 dae is ons net op die water en met die gletsers deurmekaar en dan weer Maandag Seward.Mooi bly

 

 

27 & 28 June 2015: @SEA

Yesterday hubby was off for the day so we were very lazy and spend the most of the day glued to the bed.He had a buzy night, the night before so was glad to catch up on some sleep.I made it to the gym and once again I had the most incrediable view of Margerie Glacier while going at it on the treadmill.This week the water was like a mirror and the captain got us much closer than ever before which was amazing.Later in the afternoon we were caught with our pants down!!! Meaning fast asleep when our roomstuart came to clean the room, so going from fast asleep to wide awake and on your legs in seconds was quite a wake up call!!! Well then we were AWAKE.Last night I decided to go and watch the wave and took some nice photos of hubby and Aubrey on stage but one can see that this is not one of hubbys favourite things ,his face says it all! Later i started going through our pics of all our travels so far and was amazed, we have really been very lucky, like going down memory lane, good memories,special times.Toe sommer vir liefie ook n preek gegee oor sy ding oor fotos en gese sien dis al wat mens later het, is die fotos,so gebruik elke geleentheid.Die see weer bietjie aan die rowwe kant vanoggend so ons aan die rol.Ek weer bitter lui en besluit  nee gaan vandag die gym n skip gee,nog so lekker gele en lees toe daardie gevreesde aankondinging weer uitgesaai word,code Alpha!!! Wel toe is ek ook sommer nie meer lus vir le nie en besluit staan maar op.Gelukkig was dit toe n vals alarm so almal baie verlig want ons nog op die see tot more oggend en is vandag weer tussen die gletsers en al manier vir hier uitkom is weer n helicopter.Die hospitaal in Seward lyk ook maar klein en en dink hulle pasiente word ook uitgevlieg na Anchorage.So hierso is daar nie tyd vir siek word nie!!! Ek het honderde fotos wat ek moet uitsorteer en is aan die einde van week 7 hierso en wraggies dit nog nie gedoen nie! Wonder wat doen ek met al my tyd op hande!!!!! Mooi bly