Today will be our last full day in Juneau. Tomorrow morning we have to be at the ferry terminal at 6am and the ferry is scheduled to leave at 8am for Sitka, Alaska. Sitka is a small town on an Island so I don’t know what if any internet coverage I will find there. Hopefully I will at least find an internet cafe or maybe the public library to get online. We will be in Sitka for 4 nights before moving on to Petersburg.
Today we are just being lazy. We may drive down one of the few roads that goes north out of Juneau for maybe 30 miles but if we do it will be afternoon.
As I said in yesterday blog, I will talk about some of the things we did yesterday in today’s entry.
Yesterday morning we went by McDonalds for breakfast and then drove out about another 10 miles north to the “Shrine of St. Therese”. It is owned by the Catholic Church and even has Mass during the summer months. The church itself was rather plain on the inside but the building and the outside area were really pretty. It was such a peaceful setting.
There was a young Bald Eagle perched in a tree just over our heads maybe 15 feet that didn’t seem to worry about us at all. In case you don’t know, Bald Eagles don’t gain their mature look until they are at least 2 years old. Up until that time they look like this.
When we left the Shrine we went to the Dog Sledding that I talked about yesterday. We then went downtown and picked up complimentary tickets to the Mt Roberts Tram. It is sure good to have good friends. The tram goes from right on the main street of Juneau up to the 1800 foot platform on mount Roberts. This gives you a really spectacular view of Juneau.
That is a rather large cruise ship in the picture so you can tell we are up in the air.
To finish a really busy day we went to a salmon, halibut, and rib buffet at a restaurant south of Juneau about 3 miles. Gary, Mattie, Twila, and I picked up the tab for Drew, the man that got us all the freebies, and his wife Tanya. Hope I got the spelling right. Didn’t take my camera so no picture.
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