Tonight the slack tide at Seymour Narrows will be around midnight and thus the whole schedule between Ketchikan and Vancouver has been set up accordingly. For that schedule midnight is not a bad time. It means that you are back in the open waters by 00.45 hrs. Open waters is in this case a relative… read more of “22 July 2017;…”
All in all, it was not a bad day in Ketchikan. Mist and drizzle hung around the town but it looked like that most of it congregated at the Airport across the Tongass Narrows from downtown. Still I have not needed my sunglasses this season while being here in Alaska for the last six weeks…. read more of “21 July 2017;…”
Either the weather gods were in a good mood or the forecast guru’s had excelled themselves but the weather was in accordance with the forecast. Even the wind did exactly as was announced. Gentle in the morning, breezing up between 1 and 3 pm. and then dying down again. Everybody happy and no worries for… read more of “20 July 2017;…”
Today we were back in Haines, named quaint by a lot of the guests on board. I reserve judgement but if it helps to attract tourists and the locals are happy with it, then quaint it is. But as explained 14 days ago, it looks different compared to other Alaskan towns as the houses we… read more of “19 July 2017…”
It was a regular Glacier Bay day. Due to the climate / weather differences in the lower and upper bay, we had almost all variations of weather, except snow and sun shine. Not so good for the –picture perfect cruise image- but very good for the actual experience. Glacier Bay is not the Caribbean and… read more of “18 July 2017;…”
The route we take today is exactly the opposite from the day before yesterday as we came from Glacier Bay, now after Seward we are going back to Glacier Bay. We are running at the sedate speed of 12 knots which will brings us to the Ranger Station at Bartlett Cove at the entrance of… read more of “17 January 2017;…”
Seward is a sheltered port. Completely sheltered from three sides. So whatever blows out side, will not blow with the same ferocity inside. It has two openings to the south. The one we now use to enter at Caines Head, the South West entrance to Resurrection Bay and Hive Passage which one enters and leaves… read more of “16 July 2017;…”
As humans do something seldom in the simple way, they decided to give the northern top of the North Pacific Ocean a separate name. Called it the Gulf of Alaska. But really we are sailing in the Pacific Ocean and the weather generated here comes mainly from far away from the West or South Pacific. … read more of “15 July 2017;…”
