A Journal, with Pictures

Joyce and I flew to Van­cov­er, BC on Tues­day July fifth for a sev­en day cruise up the Alas­ka inland pas­sage. We spent the after­noon and evening in Van­cov­er enjoy­ing the scenery and watch­ing the float planes take off and land through our hotel win­dow. The next morn­ing we saw our ship the Sev­en Sea’s Nav­i­ga­tor com­ing into port from its last cruise. We board­ed ship at noon and had lunch, which was the begin­ning of a series of fine meals and wine. The weath­er was per­fect and in gen­er­al we would expe­ri­ence good weath­er for the major­i­ty of our trip. We had a suite on the 9th deck with a bal­cony on the port side, which would give us a view of the coast as we sailed north. Our but­ler and house­keep­er intro­duced them­selves, made sure the bar was stocked with our favorites. They then made our din­ner reser­va­tions at Prime 7, the small on board steak house. We went up to the top deck and took in the beau­ty of Van­cov­er har­bor as we set sail for Ketchican.