Sun over Hecate Strait, British Columbia originally uploaded by jsevier14.
In order to sail to Alaska you have to traverse the space between Vancouver and the Dixon Entrance, where U.S. territory officially picks up. That’s not even the halfway point to the first stop, so Day 2 ends up being entirely on the ship.
It was a bit of a photographic letdown really. Even though the scenery outside is exotic and compelling in its own way, it gets a little monotonous, especially when considering the cloudy conditions that dominated most of the daylight. The day included a fair bit of non-photographic goofing off.
After the Day 1 sunset shooting wrapped up around 10pm the night before I managed to make it another two hours before collapsing in an exhausted heap. The movement of the ship through the water, and the open sliding glass doors letting all the peaceful sailing sounds from outside filled the room made deep slumber easy. Since midnight was really 3am to me, I managed to make it just 90 minutes shy of being up 24 straight hours, so this was almost the equivalent of an all-nighter.
So 8 hours later I was up and at ‘em, in time for breakfast, where I amazed my Aunt Sharon by slurping down a plateful of smoked salmon for breakfast. This, and many other things, was a bit of a culture shock. But she managed to deal, certainly. It was just new. “Fish for breakfast?” Oh yeah… Mmm…
While the ship was meandering it’s way through the Seymour Narrows I’d signed up for a ship tour given by an Assistant Cruise Director. Nice enough chap, but the reason I signed up for that gig was to get a look at this monster boat’s bridge. I’d had that experience before on the original Crown, which has since been sold off. No such luck on the Sapphire, a mild bummer, really. We got a tour of the bars and restaurants, and the shopping haunts. Waste of time? No. Highlight of the trip? Uh, no.
We had heard of some sort of presentation in the ship’s main auditorium, and we ended up leaving that one early. I’d thought it would be some sort of “look at all the cool stuff you can do in the port when we get there” deal, but it ended up being more of a listing of the money-spending opportunities.
We all sat there 20 minutes then the presenter said something about a “shopping emergency” and that was all it took for me to head out to find some free ice-cream.
And it stayed dreary outside most of the day, until the end of the afternoon, about the time I had to go get dressed for dinner. It cleared up enough to get a picture of sun shining over the Seymour Narrows monotony (pictured above), which was a fairly accurate representation of this slightly boring, very restful day.
If you found this and the pictures uneventful, that’s pretty much what happened. The pictures get better from here, because Day 3 is when the trip really begins. Stay tuned...
Go see Alaska Day 2 - At Sea here...
It was a bit of a photographic letdown really. Even though the scenery outside is exotic and compelling in its own way, it gets a little monotonous, especially when considering the cloudy conditions that dominated most of the daylight. The day included a fair bit of non-photographic goofing off.
After the Day 1 sunset shooting wrapped up around 10pm the night before I managed to make it another two hours before collapsing in an exhausted heap. The movement of the ship through the water, and the open sliding glass doors letting all the peaceful sailing sounds from outside filled the room made deep slumber easy. Since midnight was really 3am to me, I managed to make it just 90 minutes shy of being up 24 straight hours, so this was almost the equivalent of an all-nighter.
So 8 hours later I was up and at ‘em, in time for breakfast, where I amazed my Aunt Sharon by slurping down a plateful of smoked salmon for breakfast. This, and many other things, was a bit of a culture shock. But she managed to deal, certainly. It was just new. “Fish for breakfast?” Oh yeah… Mmm…
While the ship was meandering it’s way through the Seymour Narrows I’d signed up for a ship tour given by an Assistant Cruise Director. Nice enough chap, but the reason I signed up for that gig was to get a look at this monster boat’s bridge. I’d had that experience before on the original Crown, which has since been sold off. No such luck on the Sapphire, a mild bummer, really. We got a tour of the bars and restaurants, and the shopping haunts. Waste of time? No. Highlight of the trip? Uh, no.
We had heard of some sort of presentation in the ship’s main auditorium, and we ended up leaving that one early. I’d thought it would be some sort of “look at all the cool stuff you can do in the port when we get there” deal, but it ended up being more of a listing of the money-spending opportunities.
We all sat there 20 minutes then the presenter said something about a “shopping emergency” and that was all it took for me to head out to find some free ice-cream.
And it stayed dreary outside most of the day, until the end of the afternoon, about the time I had to go get dressed for dinner. It cleared up enough to get a picture of sun shining over the Seymour Narrows monotony (pictured above), which was a fairly accurate representation of this slightly boring, very restful day.
If you found this and the pictures uneventful, that’s pretty much what happened. The pictures get better from here, because Day 3 is when the trip really begins. Stay tuned...
Go see Alaska Day 2 - At Sea here...
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