Juneau the capital of Alaska is the third largest populated town. I started the day prospecting for gold and found 7 or 8 flakes worth around $2. Interesting panning for gold I Gould I had a knack for it. A salmon bake rewarded the hard and freezing fingers effort and a beer lubricated the throat nicely. Back in town I made it to the Alaskan brewery shop where a guided tasting tour was about to board the shuttle to the brewery. I sneaked on and avoided the $20 f...

The Star Princess arrived at our first Alaskan port of Ketchican where the locals put on a lumberjack show with log chopping, log sawing with single and two handed saws, log sawing with turbo racing chainsaws, log rolling duels and pole climbing with leg irons. An exciting start to the day. After finding my first two caches in Alaska and bumping into two lady catchers and a crewman from another ship cacher, I retired to the nearest bar and Sampled some of the ...

At Canada Place (docks) Vancouver awaiting boarding the Star Princess for my voyage to Alaska (in comfort). 7 days calling at three places on the way to Whittier. Niiiiiccccceeee!

Downtown Vancouver in a hotel awaiting boarding the cruise ship tomorrow. Many many thanks to Graeme and Marcie and Matthew for putting me up and putting up with me and my coughing all week.

Staying with Graeme Watt and family in Abbotsford British Columbia, Canada. Went to watch the rugby final and Abbotsford won. The party at the club afterwards was brilliant with so many nice people. We closed the club at 03:30 and arouse for an 11:30 Mother's Day brunch. Nice!