The downtown is the tourist mecca. Wandering around early on
Monday morning lots of the stores were closed. I thought maybe everyone took
Monday off but the reason it was so peaceful is because 4 cruise ships were
still on their way to the port. Having been on Island Princess I knew that very
soon thousands of humans with different color stickers on their lapels would soon
be riding the buses and wandering the shops.
Seeing The Sights
We decided to go to one of the more popular shore excursions
Mendenhall Glacier before they got there. The retreating glacier is impressive flowing down from the Juneau ice field with its face in Mendenhall lake. Nugget falls off to the right of the glacier and a short hike away is perhaps more impressive, and certainly moving faster.
Nugget Falls
Our plan to see the glacier before the buses arrived
worked, but on the way back from the falls the trail was busy with cruisers
hurrying off to get close to the falls in the time they had.
Pollinating Just Off The Falls Trail
We rode the very smooth two lane rode out to Echo cove and discovered a paved section of
the proposed Lynn Canal Highway that ended at a turn around with a gravel road
that we learned from another rider went a few miles more.
We headed back into town to mingle with the tourists, and
have some dinner. We had time to kill since we wouldn’t be leaving until 1:00
am on the MV Columbia. We had the downtown to ourselves again as the cruisers went home to their ships, and after a while we headed out to the ferry terminal to wait for our ship in lane 7.
We had to wait in lane 7 until everyone else had boarded. We
finally got down the ramp and got the bikes tied down. The purser had the key to our room which was the
last room at the stern of the ship. Since we were tired the Spartan room was
nice enough, and it even had a towel. One towel that we figured must have been the
last towel on board.
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