The next port was Juneau. Here is our tour bus.
Today was the Mendenhall Glacier, Glacier Gardens and Macaulay Salmon Hatchery.
First Stop was the Mendenhall Glacier.
Again with the dirty glacier rather than the pristine white that I've always seen in pictures.
Here we are at the Glacier Gardens. The people are facing what are called Flower Towers. The are big trees that are up turned with the roots up. Flower planted in the root base. These Flower Towers are planted throughout the Gardens. They are really beautiful.
A little closer view of one.
Here is the tram we rode on to the top.
This is a log roadway that was built to help get us to the top of the mountain for the lookout.
Here we are at the top looking out over Juneau Alaska. A beautiful view!
A lot of the Garden forest area looked like it would have been the perfect place to shoot Harry Potter scenes. These scary looking branches are called Widow Makers.
Creepy.
Of course, every tourist area has a gift shop. Inside this one were these beautiful hanging baskets.
A little Daly family trivia for you. We took our kids on a lot of camping trips. We stopped at a lot of lava caves and fish hatcheries. It seemed as though we never made it to a hatchery at the right season. So when I saw this excursion that included a hatchery, well it only seemed appropriate that we take a tour. Well it did not disappoint.
If only our children could at last have been here with us to enjoy the wonders of a fish hatchery!!!
Next the town of Juneau Alaska.
Each town is nestled in absolute beauty!
Bye Bye!
Here is our shrimp & lobster dinner. It was a formal night meaning you dress up and the menu has something a little more special included like lobster!!
Dessert was a pistachio mousse. Nice presentation....
