Alaska Cruise 2009: Serenade Outside

Quay-side at Skagway

Deck 11 looking out

Station-keeping at Icy Strait Point (Mostly, nowadays, the ships don't drop anchor, they use
their thrusters to keep the ship positioned, which makes it easier to move to accommodate the tides)

Sailing out of Vancouver in the gray

Reflections dining hall on deck 5

By the SeaView Cafe, all the way aft on deck 12

The window washing unit, aft by the Windjammer, looking forward

Windjammer, looking up the to Seaview Cafe

The stack and rock climbing wall

Part of the deck 11 walking track

The dark glass wall is the Vortex bar, sitting one deck above
the pool. Note the Skagway dock way below.

Docked at Skagway

The Inside Passage

The rock wall at dawn, pulling into Juneau. (You can see the rising sun hitting the mtn tops.)

Note the “little” (six-passenger) helicopter

Deck 11. The rounded-cornered, squarish overhang at the right is actually
on the Diamond Princess, docked ahead of us at Skagway.

Whew! She sure looks like a classy ship!

The glass wall of the Centrum; you can see the glass elevators inside.

Docked at Juneau

Holland America ship following us

Vortex at dawn

Love that superstructure!

At Icy Strait Point (you can see the low ceiling that prevented us from Glacier Bay flightseeing).

Serenade and Diamond Princcess at Skagway

Not quite the view you expect to see looking out a cruiseship’s porthole!

The Princess ship was ahead of us the afternoon before we pulled into Vancouver. In the night she pulled over and waited as we passed. It was about 3:30 a.m. I assume we had a different / earlier docking time that she did.

The Princess ship following us into Vancouver

(Photo by RCCI)

Launching a Launch

Odd noises the first morning sent me to to balcony. The launches used to ferry passengers ashore and back at Icy Strait Point (which we had reached), were being launched directly below our cabin!