scenic alaska

Ok there was some amazing scenery on our trip...here's a little peek at what we saw.

First of all, here's Pammer on our deck...did I mention we got upgraded to a suite at the VERY FRONT of the ship?? We could sit in our room or on our deck and take in all the scenery around us...it was amazing!! (more on that later!!)

this was in the Yukon, up at the top of our 4x4 route
Watching for whales...
YAY whale!!!! Ok so we weren't actually THAT close to this whale, but thanks to some good cropping, it make you think i was RIGHT THERE!! But it's still a cool pic, don't you think?? The whales were pretty shy..we saw lots of them from a distance just blowing water into the air and a few poked their noses out, but not much beyond that (except for this guy below, who did a little tail flick). Theresa and I did see one whale come entirely out of the water, breech and disappear again....it happened so fast we didn't get our cameras ready in time...but it was AMAZING!!!
More view from our balcony

A shot of the trees in a bit of fog from the Garden and Glacier tour we did
The glacier - the Mendenhall (I think) glacier referred to above, as part of our garden and glacier tour
A big chunk of blue ice from the Tracy Arm Fjord
more pretty pieces of the glacier out floating
And there you have it...some of the cool stuff we saw!!!

Now for some sights around the ship