Not-quite-Live < limited > cruise journal: QE (Q427) Alaska cruise: 10 night, 30 Aug – 9 Sep 2024 plus Vancouver pre & post

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Back home with our townhouse garden apartment, ndoor house plants doing fine with the watering system and upstairs unit neighbor outside chilling in her chair. 

 

 

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Juneau - 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Crew store just across the street & $12 shuttles to Costco

 

 

 

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A preview: let the eagle flies 

 

 

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Juneau - QE's afternoon tendering ops return to ship

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Lido lunch - varieties are good, NCL Ambassador Yvonne likely to approve the options and yes, I spotted freshly baked cookies near the pizza station. 

 

 

Custom baked to order pizza 

 

Tea time

 

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Laser visions of being eagle-like with 40,000 calling it home here in Juneau, many perched on top of light poles along the road.

 

 

Gosh, NCL CC teams look what I found & visually confirmed in Lido - taste test, maybe tomorrow ... stomach too full at the moment to sample.

 

 

 

Of course, more pies and puddings seen over cookies @Sugar Magnolia

 

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Royal Princess departing now as we vacated our spot to the Majestic Princess, Holland's Nootdam still at the pier (last we saw her, Dockyard - Bermuda)

 

 

Last tender - seen here - to return to the QE is 4:30 PM and it's now 4:25, likely 1 more boatload on the way, 2 at most. 

 

 

 

 

One of the waterfalls right in downtown Juneau

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This might be the last load of Cunard passengers returning ... coming in & doing that victory lap to dock alongside. 

 

 

 

 

There's your Juneau Tram - upper & lower 

 

The clouds & fog are rolling in again.

 

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Earlier this morning ...

Mendendhall Glacier bound - standby for large # of scenic photos - these 4 were taken w the Galaxy S24

 

 

 

 

Stunning ! 

 

Starting from the pier

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Now, we see the Royal ship as we set sail at 5 PM as announced 

 

Clouds & fog rolling in low and birds on the water

 

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RC's BOS

 

 

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QE's navigation channel is 42, sometimes offline for operational reasons but the available details shared with passengers leave NCL huffing & puffing, i.e. Prima, Joy, etc. 

 

Scorecard: Cunard = 1 and NCL = 0 

 

 

 

 

 

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Scenic beauty, despite the damp, wet & cloudy skies and now, the steady light rain falling for the past hour 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[NE John]

1 hour ago, mking8288 said:

Earlier this morning ...

Mendendhall Glacier bound - standby for large # of scenic photos - these 4 were taken w the Galaxy S24

 

 

 

 

Stunning ! 

 

Starting from the pier

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wait until you see Hubbard Glacier…think the ice wall on Game of Thrones. 

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Another fine institution in alliance with cruising - storefront rent here for a store like this w prime location, $30,000 a month and rest of the year / off-season ... just $15,000

 

 

Plus, they still offer these deals 🫢 really 🤔

 

 

Imagine the profit margins with a successful sales. 

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Our free time will be up soon, let's start walking ... 

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Let's check out the Totem poles on the way over 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shorex on the spot, right here as you step ashore 

 

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Shops & Stores 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tours meeting here, a 5 to 8 minutes walk

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Let's roll with our Glacier Bus, in blue color, of course. 

 

No bears sighted roadside, plenty of eagles along the way

 

This is the drop-off & pick-up point & parking area ... free-time of 90 minutes to explore.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Seas2mountains]

On 9/3/2024 at 9:28 PM, mking8288 said:

All are most welcomed & feel free to comment, post, ask and bring fun & humor along to share. If you are loving the photos, that's enough already ... ignore my "biased" commentary, we all carried our liabilities & perceived expectations of sailing Cunard.  

I wish I had the skills and talent to bring fun and humor but I must have been busy when those gifts were being handed out before birth.  It’s a good thing my husband has those humor skills and talents as I get to observe him make the crew laugh with his silly jokes.  In the meantime, I’ll admire the photos and the witty comments from @cruiseny4life and @Sugar Magnolia. 
 

I am having an “intense” week and not only appreciate your fantastic live review but also the questions from @cruiseny4life when he rejoined as he asked questions or made comments that I was wondering but didn’t have the time to ask. 
 

Here are my questions. What do the nieces think of Cunard? We have adult kids who are a little younger in mid 20’s to early 30’s. 
 

What are you and Susan missing about NCL if anything? 
 

What do you love so far about Cunard? Or, what are you disappointed about? 
 

And do the food items look better than how they are described in the menu or is that just me? Thank you! 
 

 

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Glacier 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Time to walk to the nearby small streams to spot salmon swimming upstream ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Fast track on a bypass, tonight's dinner & menu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's never easy to decipher menu descriptions without photos ... It was excellent, like the last few nights, above NCL lately, close to Specialty Dining. 

 

 

 

Let's just say, yummy yummy 👍 good good 😊 

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