Day Four - July 26th - Alaskan Cruise

Today we arrive in Juneau, the capital city of Alaska. One of the huge attractions at Juneau is the Mendenhall Glacier. It is twelve miles long and is actually one of thirty eight glaciers that flow from the Juneau Icefield. it is raining in Juneau when we arrive but not enough to spoil anything. We have a whale watching excursion booked for the afternoon so a little bit of rain will not discourage us and hopefully not the whales.
The morning we spend some time just walking around Juneau taking pictures and taking in the sights. Then it is time for the whale watching excursion which turns out to be more exciting and successful that we could have ever hoped for. Louise and I arrived at the boat that was to take us out a bit early and were allowed to go on board. As we were settling into our seats, two male killer whales came into the port and right along side our boat. I was able to get a really good picture of them. The naturalist on board said it was a one in a million shot as beluga or killer whales rarely came close enough to be photographed. Most people who get a picture of them have these long canon like attachments on their camera and get a picture that way. Well i had my little Canon Sure Shot digital camera and was able to get a picture of them very close up.
The crew of the boat were just fantastic. They seemed to know how to find the whales as we also viewed a very large pod of hump back whales and got some good photographs of them as well. Then they took us to an island where there were masses of sea lions just sunning themselves on the rocks. All in all it was a very successful whale watching expedition and well worth the money.
In the evening we had another one of those wonderful meals they serve on board and then closed out our day by attending the
Princess Theatre and taking in another comedian, this time a fellow named Don Friesen who was very good.
Tomorrow we have booked an excursion on the White Pass Railway. People have told us that the railway tour is a "can't miss" when you are visiting Alaska so looking forward to that as well.