This morning we arrived in Juneau which is the capital of
Alaska. A population of 35000 and we added a third of the population with four
cruise ships in town. From our veranda we took photos of a Bald Eagle and we
saw a Golden Eagle but it was too far away for a photo opportunity.
We visited the Alaskan State Museum which helped us escape
the rain and the museum was very good. They covered all history of Alaska. The
traditional cultures of Athabascan, Alutiiq and Unangan.
From here we took the Mount Roberts Tramway for the view and
the chance to see all the Bald Eagles – there was a chance…but it was a fat
chance. Thank goodness we saw the other
Bald Eagle earlier otherwise it would have been very disappointing.
Heavily overcast and raining it made the view from the top
difficult but it wasn’t too bad. At the
top they had a rehabilitated Bald Eagle, Lady Baltimore but we didn’t see any
others. We watched a video on Alaska and there was a musical presentation from
an excellent family group who perform their music against a backdrop of
wonderful landscape and animal photography of the Alaskan area. An Alaskan
version of the Von Trapp family. The
mother in travelling to Australia had been bitten by a kangaroo.
As our ship was leaving at 10.30 PM they had the 4 July
fireworks that were pretty but rather underwhelming but they did their best and
they had them in several positions so people could see them.
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