Mountain View Bed & Breakfast Juneau

... break in the rain – if not cloud cover – we had a three-hour whale watching excursion. A high-speed “jet boat” brought us out to some prime feeding grounds for the humpback whales that gorge themselves all summer in Alaska, before migrating to Hawaii to give birth. The tour had a “100-percent guarantee” of seeing whales, and they did not disappoint. We watched two large groups of them ...

... Therese has gorgeous grounds overlooking the water. Walked through the labyrinth, the gardens and the Columbine memorial; lots of beautiful flowers. Saw the fins of Orca whales in distance.


Jensen-Olson Arboretum is a short ride up the road. This is a picture-perfect place overlooking the bay with beds of magnificent flowers, which are all labeled. Saw ...

... had brought them some fresh Sockeye. I also put in pics of the sockeye, and i put in pics of Mama - though it will look like a brown rock behind some trees so i've circled her so you can kind of see her. But you'll have no idea from the pic that it's a bear. But she was huge, just massive. And about 20 yards away, which was plenty close for me. Anyway, we watched them for awhile, it was cool.
Then we headed out to Eagle ...

We had 13 hours in Juneau, the capital of Alaska. We took advantage of all that time to see the "real" Juneau. We took the city bus about an hour to the Mendenhall Glacier. We had about a mile and a half walk to the glacier and we couldn't figure out where it was. We turned around a bend and saw a breathtaking sight. It was the first glacier I’ve ever seen. It’s amazing how large and blue they are. Glaciers absorb all colors of the ...

WOW!!! I'm not sure what else to say! We went whale watching this morning on a small boat, only two others plus the captain. We weren't out just a few minutes before he was radioed that there were Orca's, which is highly unusual to see.

We must have seen at least 20 different ones and they were simply amazing and I can't explain ...

... what all sorts of people are looking at but didn't look like a glacier we see in the movies. Still, it's an awesome sight because it's a big wall of ice. At 10:15 I went to a Naturalist Presentation about 20 of the animals from Alaska. The talk was informative and he had photos of the animals too. I hope I get to see some of those sometime during the cruise. I was at the front of the ship as we docked in ...

Arrived in Juneau at 7:00 a.m. and will be departing quite late at 10:30 p.m Right aligned photo tag: Left aligned photo tag: Today Jane and George took in Best of Juneau!  Whale Watching Quest, Mendenhall Glacier & Alaska Salmon Bake Meighan decided on Evening Whale Watching Quest  and Guide's Choice Adventure Hike Mum and dad saw the Mendenhall Glacier ...

... After checking in, we revisited the Mendenhall Glacier and learned that it had retreated 500 feet in the past year. In the film that they show at the visitor center, which was made ten years ago, they said that the average annual retreat was 60 feet. The glaciers have been retreating for the past 250 years; that is part of the natural cycle of warming and cooling of the earth. But there can be no question that our human activity has greatly accelerated what nature had in mind.

... out some apartments that actually looked nice and were in a good location. The problem was that we had to rent it for 6 months and in case we wanted to move out earlier we needed to find a replacement. Normally, that shouldn't be a problem, but we were just not sure if it was worth signing a lease contract if Jason is not working. There was a possibility to rent a room in a house of someone, but it cost almost as much as the single apartments. We had hoped all the ...

... was (really) speachless!!  That in itself is amazing. The little town of Juneau was pretty cute once you got past the stores.  Even the shopping frenzy couldn't take away my euphoria from the flight.  I haven't spent any money yet... may do so in Ketchican.... Everything looks the same as products souvenirs available in Canada right down to the "made in China" printed on the back side. Anyway... the shows are great and the food not too bad. Did I mention ...