Loading the car the next morning was put on hold when we spotted a pair of bald eagles on the neighbouring roof, too good an opportunity to miss. We had heard their distinctive call the day before so we knew they were around and we watched them for a while,...

We arrived at the Seward wharf at 0800 as instructed for our 8.5 hour Northwestern Fjord Tour which traverses the more remote regions of the Kenai Fjords National Park including, amongst others, the Northwestern Glacier.  We heard for perhaps the tenth time that 'this has been a very wet August'...

Our next stop was Juneau. Juneau, not Anchorage, (a much larger city) is actually the capital of Alaska and is not even accessible by road! The population is only a little over 32,000 and they are heavily reliant on tourism like all of these isolated communities, so the pandemic and...

We’ve been in Seattle just over a week, long enough to reset our body clocks to the Northern Hemisphere and noticing that it takes a bit longer these days 😉 After attending Johnny’s wedding down in Oregon last weekend, (38C but fabulous) Sam suggested a short break to show us...