Day 9 Hubbard Glacier

The Hubbard Glacier is amazing. The day we went it was a beautiful clear day. Our waiter had recommended that we go to the very back of the ship where it wouldn't be cold and since the ship has to turn, we would still get a great view. He was right.

The front of the ship was freezing but it was nice and sunny at the back. We ate our lunch at the back and then I proceeded to take 400 pictures of the glacier. You can hear the ice crack before it breaks off. Amazing. (notice I use that work a lot when talking about Alaska)

I went up to the front of the ship first. The man in the hat and the blond lady with him are our friends from England, Cath and Andy.

As soon as my memory card was full the entire front of the shelf fell off!!

Up next, Sitka!!

Day 8 Skagway

Skagway was a great little town that we really loved. It has a population around 800. If it wasn't so small I would consider living here. The sidewalks are all wooden and I thought that was really charming.

Back in the days of the Yukon Gold Rush, they wouldn't let anyone head up into the mountains unless they could take one years worth of supplies with them.

We had lunch here and it was so good! We split a cheeseburger and I had an orange Fanta. I never knew how good orange Fanta was! lol

We managed to get a semi-private tour up into the Yukon in a SUV with 4 other people as opposed to a shuttle full of people. It was AWESOME!!!!!

This is a fault line. Apparently Alaska has tons of earthquakes every year! I never knew that before.

The only chance on the whole cruise to take a picture with a "Welcome to Alaska" sign.

The state bird, the Ptarmigan. I guess it's pretty rare to see them so we were lucky. They were trying to mate, so I guess that was a bonus. hehe

On the way up into the Yukon a bear crossed our path.

Dall goats on the mountain side.

The next few pics are what I like to call "how many different ways can we pose with the same sign to take a pic". LOL

This sweet girl was our tour guide.

On the way back down there was a bear eating on the side of the road! We stopped for about 10 minutes where I took about 100 pics of this. I will only share two with you!

Back in Skagway!

We stopped off at the Red Onion Saloon to have a drink. It used to be a brothel and you can take tours but we got there too late and missed the last tour of the day.

Our ship was behind this one but look at the view from the dock!

My favorite pic of us from the cruise.

This is the view as the ship left Skagway. I can't even describe how incredibly beautiful Alaska is. It's amazing!

Next stop, the Hubbard Glacier!