Skagway - wind capital of Alaska

Woke this morning to wibbles and wobbles. Skagway is windy! Sea is calm though. We have had to take a different berth than expected and subsequently have a shortly time allowed in port. Some of the tours were cancelled, but luckily we had booked on the early run with the White Pass Railway.
We couldn’t have ordered better. This is one of those tourist things that I would recommend to anyone stopping in at Skagway. White Pass is the border between Canada & USA and those crazy pioneers (around 1885) built a railroad from the port of Skagway through to Dawson City in the Yukon. It is estimated that more than 35,000 helped to build it. Some only stayed long enough to pay their way, other longer. Only 35 lives were lost and most of them were through sickness. Two were buried by a granite boulder the size of a house. That’s their grave!
Anyhow, a fabulous journey along passes, over bridges, through tunnels – all with fresh snow. The views were clear and clean – yesterday there weren’t views, just snow.
AND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (drum roll) we saw a bear on the way back down. It was quite large and very near the track. What a buzz. I thought we were going to return home having seen wildlife that consisted of two squirrels in Calgary. We’re told that from here on we should see more wildlife.
Won’t be posting now for a couple of days, as we will be at sea till we arrive in Seward on Sunday morning.
Saturday 9.30am we are all supporting the ‘On deck for the Cure’ walk. It’s a 5k non-competitive walk around the ships deck. At the same time, in London, my nice Janice and her neighbours (Janice lives in France) will be participating a 42k walk in London called Moonwalk. It starts at 12 midnight. Their walk is sponsored by Playtex bras. Check it out on the Internet.
Got to go, just short posts for the next 2 or 3 days.
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