Sailing into Juneau, Alaska

During our amazing Alaska cruise and our trip to the Yukon, we took so many pictures of the places we saw and we visited.  Each little community brought us another measure of pleasure in our amazing journey.

I hope to be able to express to all of you how we felt as we docked in the three communities in Alaska.  Our first stopping place was in Juneau, Alaska.  What a lovely little community.  As the ship docked, we took pictures from various parts of the ship.  On our way in the harbour inlet, we saw a huge station high in the mountain.  It had a tram car that went up and down.  Apparently this is one of Juneau's great views as well as other things to see and do up there.  We, unfortunately, didn't make it up the tram but we did get to see the Mendenhall Glacier which we booked at a kiosk near the dock.  It was cheaper than what the ship was asking.  We did the Glacier tour because we had lots of time before we were picked up for our dog sled ride.  I booked this tour through my tour agent, Expedia Cruise Ship Centre in Halifax.  She suggested this and I compared it to others and it was the cheapest.  I can tell you, it was worth the money.  The tour guide was awesome but I'll talk about him on another post when I write about our dog sled ride.

Juneau has a quaint feel about it.  You feel like you were here back in the gold rush days.  The boardwalk, the stores and the people were wonderful.  The citizens were very friendly and helpful.  Stores were plenty and the prices very reasonable.  I wish I had purchased some more of the pens that looked like the northern lights because my daughter took the one I had.  The prices for coats were so cheap, like $35.00 US.  One coat caught my eye and it was so awesome, I wish I had bought it.

In these pictures, I wanted to capture the entrance into Juneau and the amazing scenery we were blessed with seeing.  I will post the actual community of Juneau in a separate post.  Juneau runs up and down the main part of town for about 12 miles in each direction, which is why you see homes in some of the pictures.  You can also see people sail and the Tram up the mountain.

One amazing fact is the green water.  It just looked so different.   We found out later it is due to high concentrate of iron in the water that comes down from the mountain.  Alaska the amazing is so true.

Please enjoy!

Here are some homes along the shore that are part of Juneau.

I loved the green water.

I couldn't tell if they were just fishing or what.

Small glaciers all over the place.

Because there are glaciers, there are lots of waterfalls too.

Another home along the shore.

More homes along the shore of Juneau.

The rugged mountain terrain and glaciers frame this lovely picture.

This was so incredible to see, with the glaciers and it looks like a plane flying over the mountain.

We were able to zoom in to see these smaller glaciers.

They have sea plane tours which some people took while in Juneau.

This is a lovely view of a glacier.

You'll see waterfalls all over Alaska especially near glaciers.

Just beautiful!

This was one of my favourite pictures. The sale boat looks like a toy but it isn't.

Our first glimpse of Juneau with another cruise ship already docked.

Cascading waterfalls.

So beautiful to see in person.

Lucky sailors!

The mountains were so beautiful.

As we sail into Juneau, we saw people across the shore.

This is just so magnificent.

You can see the glacier on top and the water fall coming down.

This is the top of the tram ride.  Wish we could have had time to go up.

Just a beautiful picture.

JUNEAU!!!

Rialey looking at Juneau as we sailed in.

Another cruise ship.

Here is the tram car going up to the look off.  They say the view is incredible.

I think this is a rather nice shot of Juneau and the boats in the water.

Here is a nice clear picture of Juneau.

This is yet another cruise ship that docked.

View of the two cruise ships behind our ship.

The view behind the other cruise ship with the snow capped mountains.

There were lots of people taking the plane tours.

We watched as this plane rose up in the air, taking the passengers on a great ride.

The plane is leaving with its customers.

Rialey and Layla after we got off our ship.

The is where we booked our Mendenhall Glacier tour.

Layla was captivated by this cave in the mountain.

This is what you see when you first leave the ship.

Another view of Juneau streets.

Yup, we were ready for our adventures in Juneau, especially the gold panning & Alaska bake.