White Pass & Yukon Railroad #3 & Skagway

Summit Lake was in fog so this is about all we saw

Coming out of the second tunnel 

Mystery train

Old trestle they used before the tunnel was built 

Another shot of the old trestle 

Really dramatic views 

The train below us

Here's Mickey again. This time I was looking for him 

Downtown Skagway on Broadway looking west

Looking east. This is quite a town! Tomorrow night we go to our last vaudeville show, then we leave Alaska Tuesday and start back through Canada 

White Pass & Yukon Railroad #2

Pretty waterfall 

Another train ahead of us

Very small train ahead. Trestle to cross then first of 2 tunnels 

Still the other train 

The other train 

Our train

Around a curve

Over a trestle 

The River we crossed over on the trestle 

The rest of the train on the trestle 

Brenda is our resident picture taker! She takes a lot of pictures and her camera survived the soaking on the boat yesterday 

Where we have been. Looking toward Skagway 

I took this one to show where we'd been and the River. When I was reviewing it I noticed the Micky Mouse on the rock!

We're getting into clouds 

It's still beautiful 

The first tunnel

Train crossing treat just before the first tunnel 

Beautiful 

Cool shot going around curve 

Almost to the summit. Way over there is the road 

White Pass & Yukon Railroad

Skagway River 

Our train going over a trestle 

Train going over Skagway River 

Very close to mountain 

Still close 

Skagway harbor 

Clouds coming 

Close on both sides at Rocky Point

The highway to Skagway. Looks level, but remember we are climbing 

More highway (Milepost Book says 8-11% grade)

More highway 

Looking back down the canyon. Yes, that's the road on the right again 

Around a curve 

The road. When we went on this train ride in 2009, we couldn't believe people drove on this road much less drove RVs on this road. Now we do ....

Juneau & boat ride back to Skagway

Mendenhall Glacier just north of Juneau. Need to get out picture from 2009 to see how far it has receded.

Mendenhall Glacier with the falls.

Shoreline. No whales this trip, but the seas were a little calmer. I say a little calmer--we did have one wave that washed up and over the boat from front to back and soaked Brenda, who was sitting just behind the cabin on the back of the boat! It was quite the ride.

A boat that we passed on the trip

This is one of the ferries that RVers take from Haines to Seattle. It takes 3 days by ferry. Driving from Haines to Seattle takes about 10 days.

We passed an area where a glacier river meets the sea causing this dramatic color change in the water. There's a lot of silt in the water. This also happened close to Juneau and boats can no longer navigate that section because it's so shallow.

Taken from inside the cabin. The water on the window is not from rain, it is from the waves splashing up on the window 

I took this one to show the color of the water. Great day, mecklazine worked really well although I was a bit drowsy all day! Today we get to take the White Pass & Yukon Railroad three hour trip.