May 29, 2014 Chapter 29 I Think We Can Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents It’s Day Six, so here we have yet another Personal Navigator. I must say it’s a little odd going to bed out in the middle of the ocean and then waking up and throwing open the curtains to find …
Chapter 28 Warming Up After a Cold Day Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents Immediately after we headed back inside from glacier-watching, we went back up on deck to grab a snack. We saw that they had brought a big chunk of ice from the fjord on board the ship, and there was a line …
Chapter 27 Totally Glacial Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents It was an odd experience how our ship suddenly turned a corner to reveal the end of the fjord and Sawyer Glacier in the distance. We still had to get around some ice before we could get any further, but at least we knew …
Chapter 26 Beware the Frozen Heart Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents Now is probably a good time to address a question I’d had almost right up until we headed into Tracy Arm—what exactly is a fjord? To understand that, however, the real question to ask is what exactly is a glacier? While I …
Chapter 25 What Can We Af-fjord? Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents According to our Personal Navigator, we would officially begin entering Tracy Arm around noon, but we started seeing signs of a shifting landscape around us a little earlier than that. The subtle change that I’m not honestly sure we noticed at the …
Chapter 24 Captain’s Corner Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents Right as we left breakfast, we saw another whale out the portholes, so we rushed up to Deck 4 to catch a glimpse in the open air. Again, it was SO difficult to capture these beauties in pictures, so you’ll just have to take …
May 28, 2014 Chapter 23 Breakfast Guests Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents Here’s the link to our Personal Navigator for Day 5. It’s hard to believe that we had basically hit the halfway point of the cruise already! This morning was our character breakfast, so we had to rise and shine pretty early in …
Chapter 22 Boo, Seals! Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents After our amazing Palo dinner, we changed out of our fancy clothes and then headed back down to Deck 4. Looking down into the atrium, we could see that Minnie was back. I realized I’d never really gotten a good picture of the …
Chapter 21 Luxury Dining Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents Back on the Wonder, we headed to our stateroom first to drop off the day’s purchases. Here are the souvenirs we’d picked up in Sitka. They included a magnet, a pair of whale tail earrings for Tracy, and then two thimbles for my …
Chapter 20 Waiting for Bears Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents We were left to face something of a quandary as we found our way out of Sitka National Historical Park. We were currently right next to the Alaska Raptor Center—another attraction we’d read was certainly worth a visit—but we were also starting to …