Day 4 Friday 24 August. The one where we see a whale.
Hi. Made it back. Real life and all that. It was half term last week soI was busy looking after the kids. Also feeling sad as I was almost in Disney... If we hadn't gone on the cruise I would have been in Florida....
So on with the report. Today was our only Disney excursion. Whale watching with scientists. So we would be doing some citizen science before and during the boat trip. Oh and we had made it to Juneau
We had to be in the azure lounge at 8.15 so again we had room service for breakfast.
Then we followed the Disney paddles to the coach. First stop was mendall glacier. The kids sampled some water in a salmon stream, before walking through a forest trail for views of the glacier.
Then snacks on the bus before being dropped off for whale watching.
We lifted a crab pot to check for invasive species, there weren't any.
Then we headed out to count and watch for whales. They gave the kids things to do. Amelia was the official photographer. Zach mainly got in the way. Awesome to see the humpbacks. We saw 2, one of which we identified as flame from her tail.
Amelia's photo of flame.
And mine of the other one.
Really enjoyed this trip. Very kid friendly and not too long.. well could have spent longer everywhere really.
It was now raining. We got the coach back to town and got dropped off there as we were meeting oh for lunch at Tracey's crab shack. We had a nice meal but nothing to write home about and it felt quite expensive. Then oh led us through town to find free wi-fi and a coffee. I managed to talk to my sister on messenger an was the first to wish her happy birthday as it had turned midnight in the UK.
We then took the free shuttle back to the ship. Very useful as it was about a mile back and it was really wet.
Amelia and I saw Christopher robin in the afternoon. Zach was in the edge again. Oh was being grumpy, in the room?
Dinner was at tianas place. I know I had beef (again) followed by the best desserts on the cruise. The beignets and the white chocolate bread pudding were both wonderful. I had both. It was a semi formal night so I had forced Amelia into a dress and Zach into a clean polo shirt.
Somewhen in all this we managed to lose Zach's rucksack so had called into customer services to find it... They said they would let us know. Seems they new Zach as he had got a replacement kttw as he had lost his first one....
Another full day so we fell into bed again. Next up meeting bears in Ketchikan. Up