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Saturday | June 25th

We lift anchor at 0600 and motor a few nautical miles to Ketchikan for disembarkation at 0830. We bid a fond farewell to our old friends and shipmates. It has been a week-long voyage but when we recollect all of the memories, it seems as if we were together for a much longer period of time. We have experienced so much with all of our senses.

After a long and hard push to clean the ship from top to bottom, we wait for our new passenger friends and shipmates to board the M/V Wilderness Discoverer at 1630 hours.

All of us take turns to show guests to their cabins. We meet folks in the lounge for appetizers and “welcome aboard” drinks.

The captain, expedition leader, chief engineer and hotel manager each give a brief introduction to ship-living. We are on our way north up and around Prince of Wales Island.

This evening several of our guest passengers assemble in the lounge and play music. Friends are made rapidly and much merriment ensues.There are suggestions that our company buy some instruments for the vessels night entertainment, such as a Latin percussion box drum and a mid-level guitar, such as a Yamaha or “Ibanez”. Why not add tambourines, shakers with rice, recorders, etc?

Too much fun at night might lead to some weary adventure-seekers during the daytime, so let’s get some rest!

 

Saturday | June 11th

The Voyage North from Ketchikan to Juneau begins at 4 p.m. with a new group of very energetic guests.  After settling into cabins, attending “welcome aboard” orientation meetings in the lounge and eating dinner, we are all astonished by a sunset that lasts for almost an hour.  What a way to begin a vacation!  The water is absolutely mesmerizing and hundreds, if not thousands of pictures are digitally etched on memory cards.

 

 

   

Where is gMack now? InnerSea Discoveries Expedition Week 5

It has been an exciting week on the InnerSea Discoveries Expedition Click Links Below to read daily updates from Week 5 of the Trip:

May 28th-June 4, 2011

 

Saturday | May 28th

Ketchikan Turnover Day

Sunday | May 29th

Alaska Gold Oysters

Monday | May 30th

The Totem Graveyard

Tuesday | May 31st

Entering Patterson Bay

Wednesday |June 1st

The Snow is Melting into Music

 

Thursday | June 2nd

Patterson Bay Fiord

 

Saturday | June 4th

Packing Up

 

 

 

Saturday | May 28th

Ketchikan turn-day. Off-load guests at 08:30 and take-on new guests at 16:15 hours.

Saturday | May 14th

Ketchikan on another sunny day. Head off the ship to the Cape Fox Lodge for a talk by Tlingit speaker Joe Williams who does a marvelous job of describing clans and marriage and customs of the culturally rich and dynamic Tlingit who have been living in the area for 10,000 years.

We visit a cave  that has produced the archaeological evidence that shows that not all of Alaska was beneath ice during the Pleistocene, some areas were ice-free and early peoples thrived.