SATURDAY 13TH – JUNEAU – HOME TO 27 JEWELLERY STORES

We woke this morning to a gloomy looking morning and the gloominess was confirmed (as I suspected that it would be) when we were told that our planned helicopter glacier tour was cancelled because of the weather. We can’t understand why they couldn’t fly.

The ice field to which we were to fly was just over the mountain to the left in the photo below.

 We consoled ourselves by spending the morning exploring the town including a trip up the Mt.Roberts aerial tramway. We observed the usual warnings about bears in the vicinity but, of course, none appeared.

The highlight of the day was the whale watching tour we did this afternoon, the first tour we booked with Princess Cruises that we actually got to go on. It was really well done and we saw killer whales, sea lions and humpback whales as the photos show.

Tomorrow we wake up at Skagway and have a train trip up White Horse Pass to Yukon booked. We strongly expect that it won’t be cancelled because of weather.

On the subject of weather, it has actually been incredibly kind to us in that there has been no rain and we even see patches of sunlight. For this part of the world, that is exceptionally good. It’s just the elevated areas where the glaciers are that are shrouded in cloud.