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Wednesday, September 17, 2003
Fasten your bed belts 
| | The Captain just came on the PA system and told us we're heading out of Sitka's protected harbor and into "deteriorating" weather. The NOAA radio has a "gale warning" and tells us to expect winds upwards of 35 knots, and seas from 7 to 25 feet. We'll hit open waters around 6:30pm and pass Cape Decision around 11pm. After that we'll turn into protected waters. |
| | I just got some dramamine, just in case. |
| | The last time I sailed through this kind of weather on a cruise ship, all I could do was lay in bed and watch CNN come and go as the ships roll exceeded the maximum tracking angle of the satellite dish. We'd watch four seconds of Larry King, then two seconds of snow, then four seconds of Larry King... |
| | [Later...] Not much happened. Mostly we went up to the Lido deck and watched the water crash out of the pool. |
The other Bay Area
| | Just arrived in Sitka, and now I'm downloading 504 emails through the boat's satellite Net connection, which remains pretty darn slow. I'm just hoping I don't find anything on fire among the emails. |
| | We haven't signed up for any of the shore tours yet. I'm hoping we can hook up with some local folks to show us around. If not, we'll just walk around town. |
| | Yesterday in Glacier Bay was just freaking spectacular. The sky was clear and the air wasn't too cold. And the scenery was amazing. To the west rise the highest coastal mountains in North America. The highest, Fairweather Mountain, is over 15,000 feet. It's one of the peaks in the picture above. |
| | The glaciers here are changing constantly. Interesting stuff about it here. |
| | Our only disappointment was that the glacier above didn't calve in a spectacular way, which it does every few hours. It did the last time we were here. Still, it was quite a show. |
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