Those of you that read the "live blog" from Alaska may be wondering about all those pictures I'd mentioned. I'm slow, but here we go. The opening photo is from day two, as we sailed through the inside passage north to Alaska from Seattle There was an entire day where scenery just like that rolled by hour after hour, the day after we left.. Hundreds of miles of untouched temperate rain-forest (Which the government is now considering opening up for logging. Sheesh.) I try to visit somewhere new every year, and this trip included Seattle, Alaska and Canada, all places I'd never been.

After boarding the ship, I headed to the upper decks to get a nice view of Seattle.

Seattle is a good looking town, although all I got to see of it was the airport, the roads between the airport and the docks, and the docks. Note that there are no clouds in the sky in the above photo. Obviously, Seattle does have nice weather sometimes.
Once everyone was aboard, we got under way.


Big boat leaves big wake. Being this far north, sunsets were very late in the summer. This one was around 9:15pm.

The refraction of the light through the atmosphere produced an effect that reminded me of those optical illusions I used to see as a kid, where a candlestick or a goblet would also look like two faces facing each other.

One of the better moon shots I've gotten. I've found that with my camera, I can get a good shot of the moon without a tripod if I trick it by having something in the foreground for the image stabilization to grab onto.
The morning of day two, I went up on deck after breakfast and just relaxed and watched hundreds of miles of scenery like the opening photo and the below photo roll slowly by.

I took over a hundred photos of the beautiful, pine-covered rolling hills and low mountains that we passed that day. I thought to myself, "this is so beautiful!". I hadn't seen anything yet. Our first stop was Juneau, and Juneau is going to need a post all to itself...

You can see a "best of" collection of abut 270 photos, from which I am choosing all that will be posted on this blog, here. Not sure how well that link will work, but feel free to try it.