| One boat carrying logs and another one dragging them across the water. |
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| It would seem that Scandinavian immigrants played a part in Prince Rupert's history. Why else would they fly these flags? |
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| I believe this to be the Museum of Northern British Columbia. We didn't visit, but it's an interesting looking building. |
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| Our time in Prince Rupert was to be spent on a marine life excursion. So all aboard the Tsimshian Storm and let's look for whales and seals and eagles and other marine life. |
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| On the way out, we passed the village of Metlakatla, a community of Tsimshian Indians. The people running this excursion were all Tsimshian. |
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| A bald eagle. We saw many over the course of the trip, but I was rubbish at getting a decent photo of one. This was the best of the lot. |
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| Other eagles. I think these were golden eagles. |
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| Once we got out to the prime whale area, all the boats just stopped and waited. |
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| Somewhere under that disturbance in the water's surface is a humpback whale. |
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Ooh, slightly more disturbed water. Click here for a 14-second video of a bald eagle. This one swooped down over our heads and into the water for something to eat. I couldn't get his splash into the water, but I got him taking off again. Be sure to pay attention to the thrilling audio featuring the stepmother and the nephew. |
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| Now there's a whale. This was the best opportunity for a whale picture, so I just pointed and started clicking. |
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| More of the whale. |
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| That's the best picture of it I got. As I said, I just pointed and clicked. But when I did, I wasn't looking through the camera. I wanted to get a good look at it with my own eyes instead of through a camera lens. Because of that, my aim with the camera sort of drifted and the last photo, one of the tail out of the water, was so off that only a small part of it was even in the shot. In fact, this one was way off to the left of the original photo too. I cropped it here to be a closer look and so that I didn't seem like the worst photographer in the world. |
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| More mountains. I know, I know. Enough with the mountains already. But just like my Nevada trip, I just found myself taking so many pictures of snow-covered mountains. |
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| Here are the Tsimshian people who run the boat excursion. |
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| The Sun. Don't stare straight at it. You'll go blind. No wait, that's masturbation. What happens when you stare directly at the sun, hairy palms? |
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| That's a shopping mall. It says so right on the side. |
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| One of the first things I noticed on the trip was that the channel that shows the position of the ship featured a map with a strange error. The U.S.-Canada border looks suspiciously like the U.S.-Mexico border. Either that, or the Canucks have captured huge parts of Montana, the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, etc while we weren't looking. I had to wait until we got back closer to Seattle to be able to get a picture. You figure someone with the cruise line would have noticed this mistake. |
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| Dawn in Seattle. That's her right down there. Can you see her waiving? I came back sick as a dog and with a sinus infection. But it was a nice cruise. Everyone always raves about the Alaskan cruises and for good reason. Even as someone who does not prefer cruising, the scenery was beautiful. Anyway, that's it. I have no clever ending. |
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