Glacier Bay 8/28
(Note that clicking on images produces a larger view)
first glacier and closest to ship
Snow capped Surrounding mountains were most impressive
image zoomed in with 50x lense
standard view without zoom lens
The second glacier from a distance
image zoomed in with 50x lense
image zoomed in with 50x lense
Actual view from ship without using 50x zoom lense
on video camera:
Skagway 8/27
Larie admiring the blosoms Skagway Walkway
Flowers up close in Skagway
Downtown Skagway
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8/27 to 8/30:
8/27 Skagway
8/28 Glacier Bay
8/29 At Sea
8/30 Anchorage
Thursday 082710 follows:
11:12 PM 8/27/2010
We took city shuttle to the ship after Larie made an
appointment with the hair dresser at 1:45.
12:33 AM 8/28/2010
We walked to the hair dresser then returned to the ship on the
same city bus.
3:29 AM 8/28/2010
At 3:00 pm we attended afternoon tea. Ship will remain in
port until 8:30 so I thought I would upload Sitka Notes to
Cruise Blog.
Hope everyone is well and all is well. Lord Willing, we will
return home on Wednesday September 8th. I am in Library where
eight internet computers are available, but I am using my
netbook as my notes are recorded on it and I need to open my
blog and make entries for Sitka while the ship is docked in
Skagway. Earlier I found a better wireless connection on deck
8. So I will proceed up to that area and see if the signal
strength is stronger there than here which shows four bars
instead of five. the speed is still shown as 64 bps. At stern of ship on Lido
deck the signal strength is 2 out of five bars. I will try
observation room at the stern on level 8 and test signal
strength again.
So I proceeded toward the stern on deck 8 and found 5 bars in
the swimming pool area. I then proceeded to deck 9 in the
observation room with 180 degree view and derided this is the
best place on the ship for connection with the internet. It
is quite and signal strength is excellent.
4:09 AM 8/27/2010
19 minutes 1st
message re balance see internet manager.
4:48 AM 8/27/2010
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72 minutes balance
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72
19
38 twice first login experienced blocks to logging in to blog.
not using time for e-mail...responded to Salvador's comment.
57 used
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6:52 PM 8/27/2010
We are entering glacier bay and expect a lecture and walk
around the same deck as our cabin. So I will go test the air
to report the temperature. Hmm, it is in the 50's. But with
the wind when moving it feels like the 40's
4:26 AM 8/28/2010
I am uploading still images from olympus camera and from video
sandisks still images. After returning home I will burn
videos on CD as there is
a lot of editing to do. We have good videos of the glaciers as
well as numerous
snap shots. After about 3 hours of viewing glaciers, we
attended afternoon tea. Then Larie did her walk and I moved
images to the acer and rested. Tonight is formal dress wear.
9:14 AM 8/28/2010
We had a pleasant dinner at the Pinnacle, and the on to "fang
movie" Tonight was formal wear, so first time I had to wear a
suit. We sat through 15 minutes of "fang" about Alaska gold
rush and a wolf. Then at 8:30 I went to the gym to do my back
exercises and Larie stayed in the cabin. We examined next
day's events and checked activities of interest. Tomorrow
being Sunday we will have our own service after breakfast and
then attend non-denominational service and singing at 9am.
While I was taking photos of Glacier today, a gentlemen
invited us to attend the 9 am service. He described his
church with a long name that I do not remember, but when I
expressed that we were members of the Church of Christ he
responded that we both believed in Christ, and that his church
was too much different than the Church of Christ. I mentioned
the steps to salvation but there was no response.
All of the glacier photos were uploaded to the acer so we are
ready for tomorrow. We will be headed west and out to sea for
Cook Inlet and expect to arrive at Kodiak, then Homer, then
Anchorage.
Next port is Homer.
7:14 PM 8/28/2010
We slept late and we may eat breakfast in the Fontaine
restaurant if we can be seated. Then we will have our own
service in the cabin and at nine we attend the
nondenominational service.
11:03 PM 8/28/2010
After 9am service we proceeded to the queen's lounge to hear
about excursions on succeeding ports.
Anchorage was discussed as cultural. Homer small town 6k pop
$15 shuttle all day on and off stops. Kodiak was spoken of as
fishing capital of the world. Bear on other side of island
accessible only by air from our ship. Next day, Thursday is
hubba glacier and on Friday, JuneauJuno where we scheduled a tour
with a salmon bake.
That will be our last shore excursion that was planned
earlier. We canceled a wait listed tour for homer so we will
visit the town and return to the ship early.
3:36 AM 8/29/2010
attended computer workshop first how to use windows messenger.
Windows live messager faster with a few more options. Option
to record and send.
(The instructor is a happy smiling all-the-time computer nerd)
download.live.com
live mail, photo gallery, etc.
Instructor dislikes norton and Mcaffee as both loaded with
clutter. Free version works better.
remove norton properly. check "remove norton",
security essentials recommended. removes virus and mail ware.
crooks starting to target small businesses, install mail ware
on business computer. wifi outside business recording credit
card transactions.. sold to people in Europe. ..
best to check bank accounts/credit card accounts daily to
protect against unauthorized use.
FRAUD INSURANCE. Comment on https:// Mcafee easier to
installer. Good protection is when you will hardly
microsoft.com/security_essentials.
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7:34 PM 8/29/2010
We just finished complimentary room service. We devcided to
stay aboard today as the ship is docked in the biggest city,
Anchorage. So we dressed in our work out clothes and in
addition to walking our deck, we will most likely also go up
to the ship's gym. We decided to cancel our reservations at
the Pinnacle Grill for the rest of the trip. Larie believes
we are over eating there, and the reservations also tie us
down to meeting the reservations at specific times. We have
other choices such as the Fontaine dining, Lido cafeteria
style or the snack bar at the pool.
We will prepare to add 8/27 through 8/29 for upload to travel
blog today.
8:53 PM 8/29/2010
As I was hoping to "prethink" plan what we could use, I failed
to bring along address labels. But I did place an address
label on one of the 8 gb flash drives. So, images that will be
shared in the digital workshop will hopefully be copied to
8 gb with my name/address label will be used for images from
the workshop, so I named the thumb/flash drive "IMAGES"
I have another 8 gb Kingston thumb/flash drive that I will use
to back up images that I took on the cruise. As mentioned
earlier, I will need to transfer the video tapes to CD when we
return to Austin.
A-data 4 gb thumb/dash drive was prepared in Austin to enable
me to get to my globs and other sites with appropriate
id/password. I also included health history,just in case that
was needed. Due to the limited access to internet I will used
this data very little
10:11 PM 8/30/2010
Oops, we arrived in Achorage on Monday 8/30.. where did I go
wrong with the dates?
log on and off with pdf copy of blog...
before uploading sitak to Anchorage
http://alaska14days2010.blogspot.com/2010/08/cruise-journal.html
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