Category: Cruise Ships

Yesterday, our first port day, was wonderful. Ketchikan on a mostly-sunny day is so beautiful – and those sunny days are so unusual. By 05:30 when I arrived in the Oceanview Cafe on Deck 10 aft of the Celebrity Infinity, the cleaning crews were already hard at work. The...

I ran out of time to post this last night, so it’s now Wednesday, 15:00. It’s cloudy with a light misty rain and the sea is getting rougher. The Sapphire Princess has caught up with us and is now off our port side. We have another sea day, then...

The first regular cruise ship of the year, the Norwegian Pearl, arrived in Skagway this morning, all the excuse I needed to head down. 🙂 The weather forecast was for a bit of everything, and that’s what happened – sun, cloud, showers, a bit of snow. These peaks are...

Yesterday turned out much better than the forecast had indicated, and so the drive to Skagway and back was a much longer trip than I had expected. We stopped on the way to Skagway for a bit of a run at Tutshi Lake as usual, and then for a...

Due to really poor Internet connections on the ship, I gave up on posting while at sea the past week. Dad and I arrived back in Seattle early this morning, took the Quick Shuttle bus to Vancouver, and he’s about half-way back to Kelowna right now, while I’m at...