After our third stop on the cruise at Skagway, we had a full day and a half at sea, heading south along the Lynn canal and the Chatham strait. Most of this part was overnight. We entered the Pacific by early morning and the scenic snow and mountain vistas gave way to views of Alaskan and British Columbian islands as we headed toward the last port, Victoria on Vancouver Island.
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- Leaving the northern end of the Chatham strait
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- Along Lynn canal and the Chatham strait
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- Besides scenic snow covered ranges, there are forested hillsides and rock slides along southeast Alaska waterways
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- The view from the Pacific west of Prince of Wales Island
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- Sunrise from the Pacific side of Vancouver Island
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- A Canadian Pacific Naval patrol near Vancouver Island
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- The best image of a whale during the whole trip
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- The U.S. Coast Guard training chopper-to-ship crew transfers
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- A U.S. Navy F-18 flyby about 2000 ft; later, the aircraft did slow s-curves at higher altitude over a submarine transiting the Juan de Fuca Strait
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- U.S. Coast Guard inspects our ship in a close-by pass
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- As we passed a slow moving U.S. Navy sub with not only two tender escorts but four small armed patrol boats circling around. For ten minutes, an F-18 fighter jet did lazy s-curves above them
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- Vancouver Island and British Columbia, near the entrance to Victoria harbor