UPDATE: Here's a video Amy captured of a whale playing beside their boat yesterday.
Today we were in Juneau. The temperature was a balmy 52 degrees today. We were lucky that the rain they had been predicting did not show up. Today, we decided to go on separate excursions. Amy, Kurt, and Pearl all went on a whale watching and salmon dinner tour. I went on a hike. I guess that after all of these years of people telling me to go take a hike, I decided to take their advice today. The hike was about 5 miles long and climbed over 1,000 feet. The hike provided for some extraordinary views of Mendenhall Lake and Glacier.
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Here are the views that we woke up to this morning.
The "city" of Juneau. Even though it is Alaska's capital city, it only has a population of about 30,000 people. With 3 cruise ships in port today, the population more than doubled.
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A couple of views of Mendenhall Lake.
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And here's pictures of two of the many waterfalls that we saw along our hike.
Looking back down one of the many hills that we climbed.
Amy standing in front of part of the Mendenhall Glacier.
Me standing in front of a different part of Mendenhall Glacier.
Mendenhall Glacier without me or Amy blocking the view. The glacier is the brown and white stuff in the middle of the photo. This is just a tiny tip of the glacier. The glacier is huge and fills in between all of the mountain peaks.
We did encounter some wildlife on the hike. But don't worry, it was just a dog accompaning some other hikers.
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