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“It’s the people who make a cruise…” We’ve talked quite a lot this week about Star Princess. The food, the entertainment...
13/09/2026

“It’s the people who make a cruise…”

We’ve talked quite a lot this week about Star Princess. The food, the entertainment, our favourite spots onboard and obviously all the incredible places we‘ve been to on her, but yesterday ended up being much more about the people who make all of that happen!

And strangely enough, it really started the previous afternoon in Skagway.

Some of you may have watched Cruising Paradise: Above and Below Deck, the Channel 4 series following the guests and crew aboard Star Princess during her first Caribbean season.

We watched it before coming away, and one of the people featured was Melissa, a young British girl from Southport who works onboard as Events and Guest Services Supervisor.

We’d briefly met her getting off the ship in Juneau, bumped into her again as we disembarked in Skagway and then ended up having a much longer chat while we were waiting for the shuttle back to the ship later that afternoon.

She was absolutely lovely.

By the time we said goodbye she gave me a great big hug as we brought her a little bit of “home” into her day 🥰, we grabbed a photograph together and, just before we disappeared, she asked for our cabin number.

We didn’t really think anything of it.

Until later that evening when the phone rang.

It was Melissa.

The Captain had invited us to visit the bridge the following morning! ❤️

And so at 10am yesterday, Melissa met us outside the lifts on Deck 15 and escorted us through to somewhere passengers don’t normally get to wander around.

The bridge of Star Princess!

Captain Paolo Arrigo was waiting for us and we spent about half an hour up there being shown around, having everything explained to us and trying to take in just how much goes on behind those doors.

And what a morning to do it.

The sun was shining, the sea was beautiful and the view through those enormous bridge windows was absolutely spectacular.

We’ve been lucky enough to sail on quite a few ships over the years and visit the bridge on a few them, but standing on this bridge looking out across Alaska is definitely going to be one of those cruise memories we keep!

From there we went for a slightly more substantial second breakfast before heading to the theatre to see our Cruise Director, Cole.

We’ve obviously seen plenty of him around the ship this week, but this was something a little different.

For about an hour he talked about his own story, his nine years with Princess and “lift the curtain” on what life is actually like working onboard a cruise ship.

He was funny, cheeky enough to occasionally sail quite close to the wind 😂, and clearly somebody who absolutely lives and breathes what he does.

And actually, Melissa and Cole rather summed up something we kept noticing yesterday.

You spend a week on a cruise ship and start recognising people everywhere.

The person organising something in the Piazza. The Cruise Director making everyone laugh. The singers and dancers appearing on stage every night. The bar staff who remember what you’re drinking. The people cleaning cabins, serving dinner, navigating the ship and doing hundreds of jobs most of us probably never even notice.

You see the finished version.

Yesterday we got just a tiny glimpse of the people behind it. ❤️

After all that excitement we reverted to something we’ve become particularly good at this week.

Doing very little. 😂

We headed back to our favourite spot in The Dome.

The weather was glorious, so this time we ventured into the more open section at the front, found ourselves a couple of beds in the sunshine and basically stared at the sea looking for wildlife.

And this time Alaska actually provided!

We spotted several orcas swimming around the ship!

Nothing quite on the scale of our incredible humpback experience in Juneau, but seeing those unmistakable fins appearing in the water around us while we were lying in the sunshine was pretty special all the same.

A few tacos somehow found their way into proceedings before we eventually returned to the cabin for something considerably less enjoyable.

We started packing. 😭

Just one case.

We’re not emotionally ready for both yet. 😂

But we did manage to get the first one packed and sitting bang on 23kg.

Quite how that happened after the recent outbreak of Alaskan “tat” purchasing is probably best not investigated too closely! Balancing the first case at 23 I’m sure will be easier than the second one!

It was then time to shower and change because Star Princess apparently wasn’t finished entertaining us yet.

First stop was the theatre for Illuminate.

It was a colourful, modern production built around the world of circus, with singing, dancing, acrobatics and all sorts of things happening on stage for 45 minutes.

And this is something I really do love about cruising.

Every evening something different appears.

The previous night we’d watched Meridian. Earlier in the week we’d had singers and musicians. Tonight an entire circus-inspired production had appeared in the theatre.

These performers just give everything to it.

Dinner followed and then we wandered back into the Piazza for a game show called Do You Want to Dance?

We nearly didn’t bother but I’m SO glad we did!

Seven passengers were randomly paired with seven crew members and basically left to dance their way through whatever music was thrown at them while being judged and eliminated until one winner!

It was absolutely ridiculous and brilliant at the same time!

I genuinely don’t think I have laughed as much at anything we’ve watched onboard on any ship!

The Piazza was packed across all three levels and everybody was completely invested in it.

I’ve actually been a little unsure about this particular style of atrium on Star Princess.

I normally prefer the longer open promenades you find on some other ships and initially I wasn’t convinced by having so much happening around one central circular space.

But last night I got it.

With people looking down from every level, everyone laughing together and the crew right in the middle of it with the passengers, the whole space suddenly made sense.

And perhaps that was yesterday really.

A cruise ship can sometimes feel like a floating hotel or shopping mall where everything just somehow happens around you and of course it doesn’t.

Yesterday started with Melissa meeting us outside a lift and taking us onto the bridge to meet the Captain and ended with seven crew members making complete fools of themselves alongside seven passengers in a packed Piazza. 😂

Somewhere in between we’d listened to Cole talk about life onboard, watched the production cast give everything on stage and probably interacted with dozens more people who quietly helped make our day what it was.

Ships might take us to some incredible places.

But it’s the people onboard who make them feel alive. ❤️

Karen and Neil x

“Today we went further north than we’ve ever been!” ❤️This morning we opened our balcony door in Skagway to one of those...
12/09/2026

“Today we went further north than we’ve ever been!” ❤️

This morning we opened our balcony door in Skagway to one of those views that makes you stop for a second and remember exactly where you are!

Mountains all around us, snow and ice sitting on the tops, glimpses of glaciers in the distance and this tiny little Alaskan town tucked beneath them!

Skagway looked absolutely beautiful and Alaska was delivering again. ❤️

There were two other ships in with us, the Disney Wonder this time and, rather bizarrely, Royal Caribbean’s Anthem of the Seas.

I say bizarrely as she was the first Royal Caribbean ship we went on in 2023 in Southampton, so seeing her sitting amongst the mountains of Alaska felt slightly surreal!

We’d arrived at the furthest north point of our cruise, but as it turned out, we weren’t finished heading north yet!

After another very handy room-service breakfast, we headed ashore for our 8:30 excursion.

The famous White Pass railway is probably one of the things Skagway is best known for and most people do, but Neil had found us a slightly different way of doing it.

Instead of the train, we chose a minibus, and with just 17 of us on it it was perfect. We followed much of the same route as the train through the mountains, before carrying on across the Canadian border and much further into the Yukon!

By the time we reached the little town of Carcross, we’d travelled further north than either of us has ever been before! And unless Neil gets any ideas about an Arctic cruise one day, that record might stand for a while. 😂

Our guide for the day was Andrew, who was absolutely brilliant.

He’s only 24 and doesn’t live in Skagway year-round, but spends his summers here while the cruise ships are sailing. He’d known since he was a teenager, following in his brother’s footsteps, that this was what he wanted to do!

And you could certainly tell. He hasn’t just learnt a script to recite into a microphone. He’s completely immersed himself in the history of Skagway, the Klondike Gold Rush and the people who travelled through these mountains more than a century ago!

Which, of course, meant Neil was in his element! 😂

The scenery was ridiculous. Mountains. Lakes. Waterfalls. Glaciers. It doesn’t get much prettier!

The day followed pretty much the same pattern.

Stop.

Photograph.

Drive another 10 to 20 minutes. Stop.

Another mountain. Another lake. Another photograph. 😂

It reached the point where you almost became overloaded by how beautiful everything was.

How many times can you get out of a minibus, stare at another enormous landscape and say “Wow!” before running out of different ways to photograph it?

I’m not saying that to belittle anything but to highlight just how stunning this landscape is!

But for us both, what really brought the journey to life was hearing the story behind the scenery.

In 1897 and 1898, more than 100,000 people set off hoping to find their fortune in the Klondike Gold Rush. A journey which only a third completed! Skagway became one of the gateways to the Yukon and thousands headed through these mountains using routes including the White Pass Trail.

And they didn’t exactly travel light!

Canadian authorities eventually required anyone heading into the Yukon to carry enough food and equipment to survive for a year!!

By the time everything was added together, that could amount to roughly a ton of supplies per person.

And because obviously nobody was throwing a ton of luggage over their shoulder and strolling up a mountain with it, some made 20, 30 or even 40 journeys backwards and forwards, moving their belongings a little further each time!

Suddenly our battle with the 23kg airline baggage allowance didn’t seem quite so bad! 😂

Eventually the railway changed everything.

Construction of the White Pass & Yukon Route began in 1898 and just 2 years later, its 110 miles of track reached all the way to Whitehorse. The Gold Rush itself was already fading, but the railway helped Skagway survive as a transport and supply town long afterwards.

And I think that’s partly why we liked Skagway so much.

So many of the old buildings are still there and, with hardly any road traffic while we were wandering around, there were moments when it really did feel as though we’d stepped into an old Western town.

Exactly Neil’s sort of place!

Our journey continued across the Canadian border and into the Yukon, stopping so many times along the way that somehow a six-and-a-half-hour excursion never really felt like one.

We stopped at Wild Adventure Yukon for a barbecue chicken lunch and, more importantly, it was apparently another opportunity for me to consume alcohol for photographic purposes. 😂

Neil had an Alaskan brewery beer whilst I had something called a Sweet Beaver, which involved Canadian whisky and maple syrup!

I’m not normally a shots person but apparently I am on a cruise!

Taking one for the team! 😂

Then it was onwards to Carcross, a tiny Yukon community on the shores of Bennett Lake where we had time for a wander before encountering something else I really hadn’t expected to see this far north.

A desert!

Well...

Sort of.

The Carcross Desert is actually a huge area of sand dunes left behind from an ancient glacial lake around 10,000 years ago!

Technically it isn’t dry enough to qualify as a true desert, but standing amongst all that sand surrounded by mountains in the Yukon was still a pretty strange sight!

Certainly the coldest “desert” we’ve ever visited. 😂

Eventually we turned south and started making our way back towards Alaska.

More lakes.

More mountains.

More waterfalls.

More photographs!

I have absolutely no idea how we’re ever going to choose which ones to keep!

By the time Andrew dropped us back in Skagway we had less than an hour before we needed to be onboard, so there was just enough time for a quick wander through town before heading back to Star Princess at around 4pm.

And after six and a half hours of being very educational and cultured...

We went straight for a beer. 😂

Back onboard, tonight was White Night, so after giving our legs a rest for a while we headed back to the cabin, showered, changed and went to the theatre.

Tonight’s production was Meridian, and it was superb.

That’s another thing I love about cruising.

One night you’re watching a soul singer. Another night there’s a full theatre production. Somewhere else onboard there’s a band, a pianist, a quiz, a party or something completely different happening.

The performers give absolutely everything to it and you can see how much they love what they’re doing.

From there it was dinner in the main dining room, Beef Wellington for Neil and Chicken Cordon Bleu for me, accompanied by some wine that probably wasn’t particularly sensible after two long excursion days!

By the time we’d finished, we were shattered.

I managed a little bit of the ABBA tribute happening in the Piazza while Neil went back to the cabin to catch up on some Utd highlights, but by about 10:30 even ABBA couldn’t save me. I’d been waiting for Neil to come back out but it seems we were both done!

Two very different days in Juneau and Skagway.

Two long excursions.

And an absolutely ridiculous number of photographs and memories to bring home with us. ❤️

Tomorrow, thankfully, nobody is setting an alarm for an excursion.

We’ve got a full day at sea to do nothing!

Although we do have one rather special invitation waiting for us...

And we’re ridiculously excited about it. 👀❤️

Karen and Neil x

“Well… that escalated quickly!” At lunchtime today I was sitting in The Dome watching beads of rain rolling across the g...
11/09/2026

“Well… that escalated quickly!”

At lunchtime today I was sitting in The Dome watching beads of rain rolling across the glass, low cloud hanging over the mountains and wondering whether Alaska was ever actually going to let us see it!

A few hours later I was standing on a boat in glorious sunshine watching 17 humpback whales bubble-net feeding in front of me!!

I genuinely don’t know where to start with today’s “ramblings” because it really has been one of those days that just kept changing the script on us!

And for quite a while this morning, it wasn’t changing it for the better! 🥲

Neil’s alarm went off at the frankly offensive time of 4:55am because Star Princess was due to sail into Endicott Arm and we’d been really looking forward to seeing some of the incredible scenery and glaciers we’d travelled all this way for.

Unfortunately, Alaska had other ideas!

It was wet. It was grey. It was misty. In fact it was being downright rude! And the further we went, the more obvious it became that the weather and conditions were going to dictate how far the ship could safely take us.

We kept venturing out on to the balcony in the rain to see if things had changed and coming back in quite frankly a little miffed!

Eventually we hit the point where such a big ship (Star is the biggest that sails into these waters by quite some margin) where the captain had to turn us around due to the conditions.

Obviously we understood completely. You don’t mess around with safety just because Neil and I would quite like a nice photograph and a bit of video!

I’d be lying though if I said we weren’t disappointed.

So by late morning we were back in our favourite spot in The Dome, watching rain run across the glass and low clouds roll through the mountains as we sailed towards Juneau (which I’ve been pronouncing all build up to the holiday as “June-eye” and today I learnt that it’s “June-oh”, so travel is education children!”)

Every few minutes one of us would lift our head to scan the shoreline for a bear or stare at the water looking for a whale.

Nothing!

Alaska was keeping remarkably quiet! 😂

But every now and again it looked as though the sun was trying to break through.

And little did we know…

At around 1:30 we stepped off the ship in Juneau for our first proper organised excursion of the cruise. First stop, Mendenhall Glacier. And initially… More of the same!

The weather had properly closed in. It was so dark and wet it almost felt like evening and somewhere behind all the cloud was apparently the enormous glacier we’d come to see.

Apparently! Because we couldn’t see the bloody thing! 😂

We had about an hour there, so we wandered a couple of the shorter trails, partly because there was little else to see and partly because Neil was still convinced a bear might pop out somewhere and save the day.

No bear and no glacier.

The only thing there was, was lots of rain!

I’ll admit we were starting to sulk slightly at this point!

And then, with only about 20 minutes of our time left before pick up…

Somebody flicked the sun switch!!

The rain eased. The low cloud started lifting. Patches of blue appeared above us. And slowly, this enormous river of blue-white ice that had been completely hidden from us began appearing between the mountains.

Mendenhall Glacier. 😍

What a sight!

And perhaps because we’d spent most of the previous 40 minutes wondering whether we’d see it at all, watching it gradually reveal itself somehow made it even more special.

Mendenhall is one of 38 large glaciers flowing from the vast Juneau Icefield, travelling about 13 miles down towards Mendenhall Lake.

Suddenly the cameras were working overtime! Neil had his iPhone camera in one hand, his big camera in the other. I was on video duty so the camcorder was out as we both just tried to grab as much proof that it existed in case the clouds rolled back in!

Twenty minutes earlier we’d been photographing clouds. Now we had blue sky and a glacier in front of us!

Act two was considerably better than act one!

But apparently Alaska wasn’t finished with us yet!

Our guide collected us and drove us across to the marina for the second part of our excursion. Whale watching. 🐋

As we left from the marina, the sky in one direction looked every bit like the Juneau we’d been experiencing all day.

Dark. Wet. Moody.

The other direction?

Blue sky. Sunshine.

There was really only one sensible thing to do.

Please turn right. 🙏

And we did!

As we headed out onto the water, the clouds disappeared, the sun came out and it actually started to feel warm. Already we couldn’t believe our luck.

And then the captain found a whale.

Actually… He found 17 of them!

What happened next is something I don’t think either of us will ever forget!

We’d hoped to see humpback whales today. Maybe a tail. A blow. If we were really lucky, perhaps one doing something spectacular.

What we got was a group of 17 humpbacks working together to bubble-net feed.

This is where the whales cooperate to corral the fish beneath the surface. They use bubbles to create a kind of net around the fish, forcing them together, before the whales coordinate their attack and surge upwards through the middle to feed. It’s a specialised behaviour and something only some humpbacks do cooperatively.

We could actually see the rings of bubbles appearing on the surface. Then we’d wait. And wait. Knowing what was underneath us.

Suddenly… WHOOSH!

Whales everywhere!

Huge mouths breaking through the surface together. Blows firing into the air. Seventeen enormous animals appearing almost simultaneously. And then they’d disappear beneath the water and start all over again!

For about 40 minutes we watched them repeat it. And let me tell you it never got old! Not once! We got so spoiled with the continual repetition of this incredible act of nature that eventually we were able to put the cameras down and just watch and be in the moment and pinch ourselves!

At one point they came right under us and I have to say that their sheer size and grace is mesmerising! The camera will never do justice so we just had to take a moment to ourselves to “live it!”

This is what I came to Alaska for and boy did she deliver!

Every time those bubbles appeared you knew what was coming and somehow every single time it was just as exciting!

We learnt from the amazing naturalists on the boat that some of these whales return to the area year after year and that this wasn’t 17 animals randomly happening to eat in roughly the same place. They were working together. Actually talking to each other and…and this blew my mind, they dive down in exactly the same order every time as each whale has different roles in the feeding sequence, coordinating the bubbles and vocalisations that help concentrate the fish before the group surges upwards to feed.

Standing there watching it happen in front of us was one of those genuine pinch-me travel moments.

After all the photos, all the video and all the staring it was the moment that none of us wanted. It was time to leave them!

There was almost this shared dumbstruck feeling onboard. Every one of us processing it and asking did we really just see that?

This morning we’d been peering through rain-covered glass desperately trying to spot one whale. This afternoon we’d just watched 17 of them put on one of the greatest wildlife shows we will ever see.

How quickly a day can change!

And apparently we still weren’t finished!

We arrived back in Juneau with around two hours before we needed to be back onboard Star Princess, so there was one more place we needed to investigate.

The Red Dog Saloon.

Now THIS is our sort of place!

We have seen videos of here and we had to just get in there!

Swinging saloon doors, sawdust floors, live music, a bar full of character and enough history hanging from the walls to keep Neil occupied for hours!

The Red Dog actually traces its story back to Juneau’s mining era and has moved locations several times over the years. Apparently at one point an owner famously met arriving tour boats with a mule carrying a sign directing visitors to the saloon!

Basically, we were always going to like it.

The Country singer was brilliant, the bar staff were great fun and the beer went down far too easily after the day we’d just had. We of course had to partake in the tradition that is a shot of “duck fart!”

Now a funny story here is that we both did it and passed the phone to a lady near by and asked her to record us as we both “necked” the shot. When she passed the phone back to Neil he checked the footage and she hadn’t even hit record! A little more conversation with her later gave me the conclusion she may have had one two many duck farts herself as she had been in there all afternoon!

So, in the interest of getting “the footage” I went for round two!

Now every good “attraction” has a gift shop as you exit and The Red Dog Saloon is no exception!

And yes…

There may also have been another slight outbreak of “tat” purchasing. Or souvenirs, as I apparently have to call them now. 😂

Eventually we dragged ourselves away, headed back onboard, changed quickly and grabbed dinner in the main dining room. One glass of wine later and we were finished.

I think those duck farts were kicking in as we were absolutely shattered. And in fairness ridiculously happy!

This morning we’d got out of bed before 5am hoping Alaska was about to give us one of those days we’d remember forever and by lunchtime it really wasn’t looking promising.

Then the clouds lifted, Mendenhall appeared, the sun came out and seventeen humpbacks appeared!! And just when we thought the day couldn’t possibly give us anything else, we finished it behind the swinging doors of an Alaskan saloon!

What an incredible day and one I will never forget!

Our motto since starting Portwood Travel has always been “Making Moments Into Memories”

Today we made more of those!

Tomorrow we’re in Skagway and another early alarm awaits us and hopefully more “moments” will come with it!

Karen and Neil x

“We’re in Alaska!” 🏔️ After months of talking about it, planning it and probably boring anyone that cared to listen, sen...
10/09/2026

“We’re in Alaska!” 🏔️

After months of talking about it, planning it and probably boring anyone that cared to listen, senseless with it…

This morning we finally stepped onto Alaskan soil!

And our first stop was Ketchikan, which I learnt today is known as “Alaska’s First City”. Rather fitting really, seeing as it was ours too!

We’d deliberately kept today pretty simple. No organised excursion, no huge list of things we had to see and no attempt to squeeze every possible minute out of our time ashore.

Just get off early, have a wander and see where our feet took us.

Room service breakfast had been ordered the night before, the alarm went off at 6am and by 7:15 we were walking off Star Princess along with passengers from the other ships arriving for the day.

First destination was Creek Street.

We were docked about as far away from it as we possibly could be, so by the time we’d walked there it was already getting busy, but it was still a lovely way to start our first morning in Alaska.

Colourful wooden buildings (with a very interesting past life 😉) sitting above the creek, little shops beginning to open and seals swimming below us apparently treating the passing fish as entertainment as much as breakfast!

Then we wandered a little further to watch something we’d really hoped to see. The salmon run. Hundreds and hundreds of them fighting their way upstream to spawn.

We stood watching for ages as they launched themselves against the water, some making progress and plenty seemingly ending up exactly where they’d started!

We had been quietly hoping for something else too. Over the last few weeks we’d seen videos of bears, including mums with cubs, wandering into the creek and helping themselves to the salmon buffet. So obviously we’d convinced ourselves that we’d casually wander along this morning and there would be a bear waiting for us. 😂

There wasn’t. Not even a paw!

I suspect we may be a week or two late for that particular show!

Still, watching that many salmon making their way upstream was pretty special in itself.

From there we did what all sophisticated world travellers do when arriving somewhere new…

We went souvenir shopping. 😂

Or, as Neil lovingly calls it, touring the “tat shops.”

Ketchikan certainly isn’t short of opportunities to buy something with either ALASKA or KETCHIKAN written across it and, naturally, we felt it would be rude not to contribute to the local economy!

So we came away with a sparkly top for me, a cap for Neil, a mug destined for a future Sunday morning What’s Brewing, a bottle opener for the bar and a little totem pole for the office!

I’m beginning to think Neil deliberately packed our cases right on the weight limit coming out here just to restrict how much “tat” I could take home! 😂

Although judging by today’s haul, I’m not entirely sure his plan is working!

We do always try to bring something small back for the office shelves from our travels. Nothing expensive or particularly grand. Just another little reminder of somewhere we’ve been and another chapter travelled. ❤️

And then Ketchikan decided to live up to its reputation.

We’d been told onboard that they get rain here on more than 200 days of the year and, after a reasonably dry start, by around 10am the drizzle had arrived.

It seemed like a fairly good signal that we’d done what we’d come to do. So we started wandering back towards Star Princess, passing the other ships in port along the way, including Disney Magic, which obviously required another photographic stop!

By around 11am we were back onboard and seemingly ahead of most people, because the ship was wonderfully quiet. Perfect for Neil to grab some video of an empty ship (and then put the footage with the other 20 ships and do nothing with!)

Our very light 6am breakfast was now a distant memory, so brunch in the American Diner was followed by a migration back to what is rapidly becoming our spot onboard.

The Dome!

Honestly, this space feels as though it was made for Alaska. You’re right at the top and front of the ship surrounded by glass, so you can see the scenery and weather all around you while remaining warm and dry inside. And considering what was now falling from the sky outside, the dry part was becoming increasingly important! 😂

We found somewhere comfortable, read for a while and generally did very little. Which, as established yesterday, we’re getting rather good at!

Then the ship provided another bit of unexpected entertainment. A pair of acrobatic performers appeared over the indoor pool and performed one of those routines where you’re not entirely sure what to call what you’re watching, but you know you’d put yourself in hospital if you attempted any of it! 😂

There were hoops, flowing silks, balancing, spinning and all sorts of Cirque-style aerial acrobatics suspended above the pool. Absolutely beautiful to watch. And once again, we hadn’t gone looking for it. We just happened to be sitting there when it happened.

Eventually the exhausting business of watching other people exercise became too much, so we relocated to a bar for a drink before heading back to the room to shower and change for the evening.

Tonight we changed things around a little and had dinner first in the Irish pub, followed by the later theatre show.

Oh my what a voice!!

Tonight’s performer was a lady called Kimberley Davis, a soul singer who has worked with some huge names during her career, and sitting just a few rows from the front listening to her absolutely belt out those songs was a brilliant way to spend the evening.

Then it was off to the atrium because tonight onboard was 80s night! And I have a very simple rule when it comes to 80s music. We can go to bed when they play a song I don’t know the words to!

It’s a system that has served me remarkably well (or badly if you’re tired 😂) over the years.

Eventually common sense had to overrule the game because tomorrow’s alarm is set for the frankly offensive time of 5am.

We’re due to enter Endicott Arm early in the morning where we’re hoping to get our first proper look at Alaska’s glaciers!

Then tomorrow afternoon we’re in Juneau for our first organised excursion and something I’ve been looking forward to enormously.

Whale watching! 🐋

The weather forecast looks absolutely bloody awful, but that’s fine. I’ve got a raincoat!

Those whales had better get themselves ready because I’m coming! 😂🐋

Karen and Neil x

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