It’s good to say goodby to Juneau. Nice city but it has rained for most of every day we have been here. I am willing to admit this has coloured our opinion.

3.30 this morning I woke to hear the rain drumming on our tent. So we left our lovely warm sleeping bag to don full wet weather gear to pack up. The ferry won’t wait. We picked up Nicky and Peter in town and made it in time to check in and wait some more. These early ferries make you feel like you are having a jet lag day.

BYO breakfast on the ferry. Their food is inedible.

As we pulled out from the dock a patch of blue appeared over Juneau. Just our luck. The 4.5 hour trip to Haines started out as most others; endless cloud and tree covered soaring mountains. But the second half was very different and very spectacular.

We sailed into Glacier Bay where the mountain tops sported glaciers of all sizes which often spawned waterfalls. It really was breathtaking, and endless.

See what I mean? And you probably won’t be surprised to know I have another 50 I could show you.

A cute lighthouse or two also.

We arrived in Haines about 12 noon and headed to our accommodation, a yurt.

With a most spectacular back door view.

The town of Haines is small but in a glorious setting of glacier covered mountains all around.

Collette and I were suffering sleep deprivation so we had some down time while Nicky and Peter did the town over. It didn’t take long.

We had been told of a spot some miles out of town where we were guaranteed to see bears. So we set off about 6 for a bear hunt. 3 hours and nothing. They had a night off.

Tomorrow we head to Haines Junction and back into Canada for a night.