Day 11 Juneau

Lime Projector from 1880's , hence the expression , " in the lime light"

Eskimo's Buddha like Gods: Gods of everything the way it should be.

Eskimo Art

Bear Looking for Fish

Found the fish

Eating the fish

Mandenhall Glacier and the water fall

Mendenhall Glacier

The night on the Ferry was interesting. The kids in the next room were all excited and were up till way later, but we managed to sleep though it. We met an interesting Australian couple travelling Canada and Alaska almost like us, may be we will see them again in Vancouver:) . A grandma moving to Juneau to be close to the grandchild ( she said what's the use of having a grandchild if you are not close to him:), reminded me of Sue.

Juneau is very pretty and we are told by almost everyone that rain is the normal weather, that's the secret of the rain forest and the water falls. We drove to the Mendenhall Glacier. It comes with two wonderful waterfalls, blue glacier ice and a lake with ice bergs floating in it. I thought it looked like something we see on PBS nature series.

And guess what: We were watching Salmons swimming in this shallow creek and heard a big sound and here was a Bear fishing the Salmon. We just stood there and clicked pictures ( wish had better zoom) but it was just like the nature show on TV, It took him 5 minutes to catch one and then just ate it. We saw so many half eated fish scattered all over. We were told there were 17 bears around that creek. VERY COOL.

The down town is cute. Many upscale shops, mostly jewelery catering to the Cruise ship tourists. There are four ships docked here and the local restaurant person said they get 4000 people every day...

Ate good Salmon ( with coconut and Mango chutney) at a local place ( Twisted Salmon Grill) and visited the Alaska State Museum. Big and interesting in that it goes from Native people to Russians and then early Americans. I guess Sarah Palin is right in that it is( was) really close to Russia in fact it was Russia. The Museum has a copy of the 7.2 million dollar check that was used to purchase Alaska from Russia by Mr. Steward ( Secretary of state then) . Lots of Eskimo information and culture and gold mining stories.

Our hotel, Hotel Juneau is just outside the main area ( a mile may be) It is basic and nice , has kitchen and washing machine. SO, cleaning break tonight...

Hope all is well with you and I will be in touch tomorrow

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