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June 16th
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Food's all ready ... waiting for the bus
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The bus arrived but so did the rain
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Sun Peaks Grand Hotel ... Nice!!
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Beautiful view from the hotel
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June 17th & 18th
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Jill, this one's for you ...
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Loading for Vancouver
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A great nurse doing the covid test
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and Everyone! passed ... yeah!!
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Vancouver, BC and just about to board
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Koningsdam ready for us
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but 1st "Fly Over Canada" Amazing!
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Onboard & Mark welcomes everyone
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June 18th
We're all onboard (43 of us) and at 4:00 PM we set sail. At 4:30 Jim and Karen bought drinks for all
at the Welcome Reception and Mark started his new roll trying to fill in for Hugh (our Canadian Government used
Canada Post to send them their passports and they never arrived). Mark welcomed everyone, talked about some
important dates and group get-togethers, and played the group slideshow. He then announced next year's cruise ...
and ... it's a full transit, West to East, of the Panama Canal, on the Emerald Princess - January 16th to February 1st. Starting
in LA and ending in Fort Lauderdale with visits to six different countries! And a private group Cattle Ranch Tour in
Costa Rica!
See all the details on Hugh's website, www.hugh-mclennan.com, or
call Cruise Vacations of Winnipeg at: 1-800-530-0131 and ask Megan for the details! OR see the Flyer here!
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June 19th
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Kathy & Karen in a camera war
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Mark calling up entertainers
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Karen & Mark enjoying the show
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This is our kinda ship!
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June 20th
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Juneau - water below mountains above
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a great view from the gondola
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Jill another one for you
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the same as a Red Tail Hawk
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June 20th & 21st
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They saw one of us coming ...
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and she ate the WHOLE thing!
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on the White Pass Rail
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an amazing experience with our group
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June 21st
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way up at the top
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and now back in Skagway
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inside the wine cooler!
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Khay showing us her favourite wine
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June 21st we had dinner in Pinnacle, the steak house, and we met the Sommelier (she came looking for the table that had ordered
a bottle of "Sextant" a red Zinfandel from California). Kathy took the photo of the wine tower a couple
of days ago and it was impressive. We never dreamt we'd get inside it :-). After dinner Khay said we could take her picture
at the wine tower ... we presumed outside. She said "no no ... come with me" and led us inside ... super impressed. We do
know the right people to talk to !!
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June 21st & 22nd
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Here's the rose rack Jill
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Khay, Mark's new favourite girl :-)
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Breakfast with a super glacier view
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cruising Glacier Bay
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June 22nd
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textures, colours, & sounds ...
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the Grand Pacific Glacier
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Margerie Glacier - masssive
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layers & layers of moving ice
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Kathy organizing for the group photo
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a ship's photographer group photo
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Mark ready for formal night
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Kathy getting mauled in Ketchikan
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June 23rd
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the Aleutian Ballad
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great viewing of the working deck
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Mark checking out the bow
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an Alaskan King Crab
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June 23rd This was an excursion that Kathy booked for Jim & Karen and us from Holland America ... absolutely worth the money!
It was awesome! It was a Bering Sea Crab Fishing Tour on the Aleutian Ballad which used to be on the TV series
"Deadliest Catch". We saw, and learned all about, prawn trapping, bottom fishing, crabbing, different types of crabs,
fish, prawns, shrimp, and Octopus! Everything was returned to the ocean! And ... the eagle part was worth the money by itself!
Click here to see Karen's slow motion video.
Or click here to see Karen's other real time video.
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everything was displayd to us
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See Karen's eagle video above
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Jill these are all for you
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bringing in a prawn trap
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prawns (they were released)
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after we got a close look
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hauling in a crab trap
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with a ton of box crabs
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deck hand checking out the catch
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hauling in a different trap ...
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... with an octopus!
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Mark got a special tour :-)
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and so did Kathy :-)
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then they took this of us!!
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Mark got Hugh to join on Duo
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Kathy caught the sunset !
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Kathy & Karen at the farewell
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and the next day into Vancouver
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