Princess Cruises went all out on the inaugural of Ocean Princess. The food was unexpectedly good. Theme meals with large ice carvings and fruit sculptures.  Our cruise started northward from Vancouver and spent the first day cruising through the Inside Passage, which was fortuitous because Allen had a slight case of seasickness and needed the day for acclimation.

Northward itinerary was most definitely superior regardless. The trip kept getting better. In Ketchikan, we saw hundreds of salmon struggling upstream to spawn while others were resting in the calm parts of the streams. In Juneau, we went on a glacial river rafting tour. In Skagway, we took the scenic train ride up to White Pass. Finally, we watched dramatic visual and aural calving of icebergs from glacier tips at Glacier Bay and College Fjords.

• 7/8/00 Vancouver
• 7/9/00 Inside Passage
• 7/10/00 Ketchikan (Salmon capital of the world. We saw tons of salmons swim upstream in the rivers around town!)
• 7/11/00 Juneau (State capital that is not reachable by car.) Our first Glacial River Rafting Trip :)
• 7/12/00 Skagway (made famous by the Klondike Goldrush and its White Pass and Yukon Railway.)
• 7/13/00 Glacier Bay National Park (thunderous calving of glacier tips)
•  7/14/00 College Fjord (more Glacier watching.)
• 7/15/00 Seward/Anchorage

Mendenhall Glacier outside of Juneau.

Mendenhall Glacial River Rafting.

Waiting for our White Pass Train Ride in Skagway. You can see our ship behind the vintage train.

Glacier Bay National Park

Thunderous calving of icebergs from glacier tips.

One of the dress-up dinner days.

Our private table with Lobster dinner for 2.