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Thursday, July 14,
2022:
A ham and cheese omelet, just the way Mark and Paula like it...and Paula
didn't have to cook!
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The crew leaders
introduced themselves and told about the ship. The Orion is 743 feet
long with a 94.5 foot beam.
She is 47,000 tons. There were 824
passengers with a crew of 477.
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Going into Valdez, there
is a statue dedicated to the workers of the Trans-Alaskan Oil Pipeline.
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A helicopter picked up
Mark and Paula.
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They flew to a nearby
glacier and saw that it is litterally a river of slow-moving ice.
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The pilot was glad we
made a safe landing on uneven rock.
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Then down to the glacier
they went.
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Then Paula spotted an
ice worm. They live on glaciers.
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There are unpredictable
holes in the glacier ice.
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Mark was busy with his
camera documenting the adventure.
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Paula, glaciers really
are rivers of ice!
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Back in the air, they
found hillsides are alive with vegitation.
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Hard to see in this
photo, but there were six goats on the hillside that day.
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Back to Valdez, glad the
ship is still in port.
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Here she is from the
other side.
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Back on board with 70
degree weather.
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Lively music inside. |
All
in the day of a cruise. Mark
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