We slide into port at the respectable hour of 10 just as Steve and I finish our eggs Benny with salmon. No simple room service today. We were having a busy day and wanted a nice breakfast!

Unfortunately it’s raining! We walked through the township. Juneau is the capital of Alaska. It has around 33,000 people and most of them work in tourism, logging, salmon, selling jewellery ( why are there sooooo many shops selling diamonds ) and lollipop persons seeing us safely across the roads to save being run down by a tourist bus.

We avoided the jewellery speakers and called into the public library. Curiously located on the 5 th floor above a city car park, it is warm and welcoming and the librarian was helpful with bus timetables.

We didn’t book a tour of the glacier ( we’re flying over this afternoon) or a whale watching tour ( we’re flying will see some later this week when we do go on a tour)

So we decided to be a local and get the no 8 bus out to the Medenhall glacier. It worked well.

Except we did not leave enough time to walk the 1.5 mile up to the glacier so only saw it from a distance. But we met some nice people on the bus.

Especially coming back we had a great chat to a couple from England. Both were in the police force. So lovely and interesting. pity they are on the Princess cruise.

We got back in time for our 5 glacier fly over in a light – ie…..very small plane.

We met Kathleen and Jonathan from Nth Carolina. Along with a grandad and his two grandchildren 6 and 10 we flew down the Taku river over the glacier and along the river over two more glaciers. The plane was small we had headphones and an excellent commentary.

It’s so remote , so cold looking – and this is the start of summer. You have to be tough to live here in the wilderness. Though it did remind me of the opposite conditions in the Northern Territory of Australia. The blue of our waterways, and the remoteness of our outback.

Here they have grizzly bears. We have crocodiles 🐊.