Canada Day 25 and Canada Day 26 (Final Full Day)

Today is 30/9 and it is currently 4:00pm. We fly home to Australia tomorrow so I thought I would do yesterday and today’s post now as we have finished our final scheduled activity. Day 25 We finally had bad luck with the weather in Canada, we have woken up to a very wet day today. […]

Canada Day 23/Alaska Day 7 and Canada Day 24

I know I said I wasn’t going to post anything else until our first full day in Vancouver, however I’ve changed my mind. Our sea day (officially) started exactly the same as the day before very rough and rocky. We had apparently had a rough night as well (I hadn’t felt it while I slept), […]

Canada Day 21/Alaska Day 5 and Canada Day 22/Alaska Day 6

Today will be the last time I write a blog post until we get into Vancouver on Sunday (unless something noteworthy happens over the next couple of days). Being overly dramatic we are locked on a cruise ship and can’t even access the walkways because of an arctic low in the Gulf of Alaska with […]

Canada Day 20/Alaska Day 4

Today we woke up and the ship was already docked in Skagway Alaska. Skagway is the gateway to the Yukon, which is in Canada so we need our passports to cross the boarder today. We were going to try and walk into Skagway and back before our tour started but you have to take a […]

Canada day 19/Alaska day 3

Today we are going to Juneau, Alaska. We will be in port from 1pm until 9:30pm. The morning is a lot calmer than last night, the boat was rocking and rolling when we went to bed. Stu and I had an early breakfast and then went up to the Crows Nest cafe. Everyone was up […]

Canada Day 18/Alaska Day 2

Today is a cruising day so we’ve booked plenty of activities to keep us busy while the ship cruises up the inside passage. It was very rough when we woke up this morning. We are going through a piece of open ocean for most of the day. We tried to do some laps of deck […]

Canada Day 17/Alaska Day 1

Today we are off to Alaska. Our email from the cruise line suggested getting to Canada Place between 10am and 11:30am. Linsey got us all booked on the 10am shuttle to the cruise terminal. Stu and I got to the foyer at 9:30 and they started loading our bags on the shuttle. I had to […]

Canada Day 15 and 16 (Driving Days)

Over the last couple of days we made our way down from glacier territory and the national parks to Vancouver. We had 840 (ish) kilometres to drive so we broke it into two parts and drove from Field to Kamloops and then Kamloops to Vancouver. The highway down from Field to Golden and then on […]

Canada Day 13 and 14

As we will be on the road a fair bit tomorrow I thought I would do day 13 and 14 together as I am not sure how much time I will have in the morning. Tomorrow we start our trip back to Vancouver with an overnight stop in Kamloops. Day 13 Today we are driving […]

Canada Day 12

This morning was a slow start as we don’t have any firm plans, maybe a little bit of a hike to see if we can spot any Moose or bears. After a leisurely breakfast we jumped in the car and headed out to Maligne Lake, we are hoping to get a lake cruise and go […]