We joined seven other family members in June for a cruise on the Oceania ship Regatta from Seattle to Alaska and back via Victoria, B.C. The scenery was spectacular!
Bob landed a king salmon in Ketchikan, as did our oldest daughter and our niece.
We kayaked on Mendenhall Lake with two of our daughters, seeing both the Mendenhall Glacier and Nugget Falls.
In Skagway we biked through the forest, including the site of what was once the town of Dyea and the beginning of the Chilkoot Trail.
At Icy Strait Point we took a tram through the forest, then hiked a short nature walk.
The ship sailed on north from Icy Strait Point to the Hubbard Glacier, stopping just a mile short of it. The glacier is six miles wide and approximately 300 feet tall. We saw several “calvings,” that is ice breaking off the face of the glacier, where it meets the sea. The whole experience was breathtaking.
On the way back south, we stopped in Sitka. We and our niece hiked with a guided group through the rain forest.
In Victoria we took it a bit easier and hired a van and driver to give us a guided drive through the city. One of our stops was at the largest one-log free-standing totem pole in the world.
