Ketchikan to Vancouver post 15 of 16
July 2, 3, and 4, 2018
According to a no less authoritative source than the actual Log of the Cruise, we thrust off our Ketchikan berth at 17:48 hours Monday, cruised all day Tuesday and overnight, sending our first mooring line ashore at 07:01 Wednesday, the Fourth of July, except in Vancouver it was just the fourth, of course. 518 miles all told.
Here was our view inbound:
Quite the skyline!!
This last stretch of the voyage was the first time we'd had temps in the 70s and sun aboard the Coral Princess. The poolside jumbotron was shilling other Princess cruise destinations:
That shot was taken at 08:30. We left that view for a new one, the Sutton Place Hotel downtown. We had a most amazing ship-to-shore transition, as the dock terminal was Swiss-watch precise in moving the two thousand of us into taxis. Yay Canada! Here's the slovenly lobby, shot at 10:18 (but who is counting):
Grizzly bear over man's head, as noted above:
And, the giantess Dzunukwa:
The house post was an interesting concept:
Here's the Thunderbird:
And the man held by the grizzly:
Here's the grizzly:
And, a step back to set the context again:
According to a no less authoritative source than the actual Log of the Cruise, we thrust off our Ketchikan berth at 17:48 hours Monday, cruised all day Tuesday and overnight, sending our first mooring line ashore at 07:01 Wednesday, the Fourth of July, except in Vancouver it was just the fourth, of course. 518 miles all told.
Here was our view inbound:
Quite the skyline!!
This last stretch of the voyage was the first time we'd had temps in the 70s and sun aboard the Coral Princess. The poolside jumbotron was shilling other Princess cruise destinations:
That shot was taken at 08:30. We left that view for a new one, the Sutton Place Hotel downtown. We had a most amazing ship-to-shore transition, as the dock terminal was Swiss-watch precise in moving the two thousand of us into taxis. Yay Canada! Here's the slovenly lobby, shot at 10:18 (but who is counting):
An hour later, Linda and I hoofed it over to the Hendrix/Prince memorial, which I expected to be some sort of park and/or statue. It was hard to find, but we did!
It was neither!! And, it was shuttered!!!! Closed, lack of funding, may open in a year. Or two. Oh well!
Undaunted, we turned our attention to Stanley Park. This is a large (!) park first dedicated in 1889.
Here's a digital map: https://vancouver.ca/stanleypark . And below, a printed one:
Our target there was the totem area, which is located on the lower right of the map, above.
We joined a fair number of other sightseers:
These are all recreations, authentic, but completed so as to preserve the history and true sense of the first nations religion/culture/beliefs. That pole furthest to the right was in memory of Chief Skeldans, and his ashes resided in the top section for some time. Here's the story:
The next shot is a zoom in on the top section:
Grizzly bear over man's head, as noted above:
And, the giantess Dzunukwa:
Ga'akstalas pole (still), Quolus, legendary bird:
The house post was an interesting concept:
Here's the Thunderbird:
And the man held by the grizzly:
Here's the grizzly:
And, a step back to set the context again:
I could not resist shooting, nor sharing, the unpainted pole:
Our time in Vancouver was limited, in that we were flying out the next day to Portland, OR, so no more narrative, or pictures. Lucky you the reader, right?
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