We swapped bedrooms with Steven so that John could set the camera up to take pictures - Steven's bedroom faced North. Up against the glass didn't work - again. So John set it up against the flyscreen - that is why the check pattern on the clouds in the star trail on the left. Dawn decided to stay up & see if the Aurora came out, initially it was cloudy but then it became clear so there was more incentive - she gave up at 3:00am when it clouded over again (John had given up way before this) we also needed to have the bags out at 4:00am - John let her sleep in until 4:30am.
Today was the last day with Claudia & Chris :(
They dropped us off at the airport for us to catch a flight to Seattle.
Anchorage Airport.
Nice clouds.
Glaciers with a number of medial moraines.
Some sights coming into the Seattle airport.
The plane that we flew on.
The waiting area in Seattle.
An unusual "sculpture".
The plane from Seattle to Victoria on Vancouver Island, much smaller and squishier and much more laid back hostess/host. Also a bit bumpier but thankfully very short about 1/2 hour.
Taking off from Seattle airport.
Victoria from the air.
An interesting sculpture at Victoria airport.
We have loved the beautiful flowers around most of Alaska and were not disappointed in Victoria either. After an hour or two of settling in we then all went for a walk to dinner and saw some 'different' sculptures.
The Parliament Building.
and at night on the way home from dinner.
The Empress during the day....
And at night.
Some examples of units that look like a cruise liner.
Captain James Cook R. N. definitely got around!
Ros (our tour director) took us on a walk to Fisherman's Wharf - moored boat houses with businesses in them - most of us had the fish & chips or seafood - Steven didn't come for some reason :P (for those that don't know Steven does not like seafood!).
Most people caught a water taxi back to the main harbour (we did walk quite a way to get to the shop and some were not happy they couldn't get an alcoholic beverage there either).
Along with another couple, we bought an icecream to eat on the way back to our hotel.
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