Saturday | July 16

Juneau

“Between the woods the afternoon / Is fallen in a golden swoon / The sun looks down from quiet skies / To where a quiet water lies, / And silent trees stoop down to trees, / And there I saw a white swan make / Another white swan in the lake; / And, breast to breast, both motionless, / They waited for the wind’s caress…/ And all the water was at ease.” -A.A. Milne, The Mirror

Today is shopping day. Yippee! This is my second turnover day since the start of the season where I don’t have to swab the decks with the deck department or break down boxes for the galley and vacuum for the hotel department.

Just getting off of the ship for a spell is good from time to time to stimulate the brain with the small town vibe of Juneau and the best part about it: the Juneau-ites.

Leah--our wellness instructor--and I hit all the big box stores: Home Depot, Fred Meyer and Costco to shop for various items that were requested from the different departments on the ship throughout the week.

We all work hard on these turn-over days and look forward to the arrival of our new guests after disembarking our old guest-friends in the morning.

We wave good-bye to the massive cruise ships docked along the waterfront as the M/V Wilderness Discoverer (WND) heads south through the Gastineau Channel.

 

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” --Marcel Proust

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