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Carl Seaton's |
August 31 to September 7, 2003
 My brother, Carl Seaton of Olathe,
Kansas, sailed Alaska's "Inside Passage" from Vancouver, British Columbia
to Hubbard Glacier, then south again, stopping off at Skagway, Juneau,
and Ketchikan. He and his good friend Richard Finehart shared a cabin.
Dick lives near Brownsville, Texas.
Howard and I live in Klawock, on Prince of Wales Island in southern southeastern Alaska, not far from Ketchikan -- as the crow flies. But it's a 3-hour ferry ride, so we came over the day before in order to be there when Carl's ship came in. Howard took a couple of the pictures from 4th story window of our room in the Super 8 Motel. Howard served as chauffeur and photographer as we all did the tourist thing. It rained some, but not enough to bother us. |
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| The Royal Caribbean "Vision of the Seas" arrived in Ketchikan at 8:00 AM on Friday, August 5. | View of the ship from our motel room; notice the little float plane at left. |
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| Carl, wearing his Kansas City Royals cap. His favorite recreation on board ship was walking and playing ping-pong. | The ship is huge! Carl said it extends only 25 feet below the surface, and has stabilizers so it doesn't rock from side to side. |
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| Dick Finehart and Marge Marshall, resting in the Ketchikan ferry terminal. | We toured two totem parks. This one is north of town. The other is at Saxman, south of town. |
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| "Dolly's House" is in the Creek Street area, Ketchikan's former "red light district." | The
bridge where Creek Street flows into the harbor. |
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| Carl's stateroom is in the bow (front), which is on the left in this picture. Visitors can't tour the cruise ship because of security issues. | Breakfast
over the newspaper at Salmon Landing |
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Carl says it's the first time he has ever come home rested after a vacation. What a revolutionary idea! We may have to try it sometime! |
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