Our next group of pictures covers the Ketchikan to Juneau leg of our cruise. Click here for the photos or select “Alaska2” tab above.
We got to Juneau in the morning; this is Alaska’s state capital and the biggest town on our visit. Visiting with us was another cruise ship and the USS O’Kane, a Burke-class destroyer built in Bath, Maine, and seen here on the left. I first thought the ship was a Destroyer Escort because it looked pretty small compared to our ship. This is the same kind of ship as the USS Fitzgerald which got clobbered by a container ship the other day off Japan.
From our recent Alaska trip, here we are in an Aerospatiale helicopter approaching the Mendenhall glacier northeast of Juneau. I am working on the Part 2 photo essay for the trip (from Ketchikan to Juneau).