KETCHIKAN

 On board Discovery Princess, the same class of ship we had sailed before, so we sort of know our way around. We had a display of the Northern Lights on our way up, but our jetlag is still making us over tired especially so for Lin with her cold. 

We must be near the end of the season, Ketchikan was pretty quiet & all the businesses closed as we set sail at 14:30.

That pretty row of painted cottages are the prostitute's residences. That creek was full of dead and dying salmon, I guess they all die after spawning. There were so many that the seals were playing with the remaining live ones, not bothering to eat them. We're off to Juneau next.

SEATTLE & ONWARD

 Well, if we tired before we were certainly exhausted after the first day. Cab to Gatwick was good as was check in - the first time we have enjoyed "the no need to take anything out" bag security system. Norse flight good, arrived early but it took over 2 hours of kicking your bag in the queue for passport entry. Then off to the Delta terminal for the run up to Seattle. That was also an excellent flight arriving early. After the cab to the hotel we finally got to bed at 11pm, all-in-all 27 hours after we left the flat, and no sleep and jetlag.

Lovely in Seattle, hot - got a bit of sun sitting on dock and enjoyed a good US burger in the bar overlooking the front. Pike's Market was busy, beautiful flowers on sale, lots of street music.