Skagway and Yukon Pictures

We arrived in Skagway Saturday morning, and had to get up early to catch a bus into the Yukon, for our saddle and paddle adventure.  Neither the saddle nor the paddle were quite what I had hoped, but the 90 minute bus ride (each way) was worth the trip nonetheless -- we had a great tour guide (Mark), and we had some incredible views of the mountains -- plus, we got up close and personal with a brown bear on the way back.  And MK and I learned that we can paddle a canoe together (we've both canoed before, but not together.)  I did pull a bit of a dirty trick on her -- as you can see from the photos, I made sure we were dressed in almost identical clothes -- white shoes, bluejeans, blue alaska t-shirt, our Star Island overshirt, and blue caps.  She hates it when we dress alike!

Later that evening was when the trouble began -- my stomach started hurting at dinner, and I got very sick with a Norwalk-like virus.  We were quarantined (in our spacious deluxe veranda suite, but still...) for 3 days. Perhaps it was punishment for the trick I pulled on her.  Luckily, the next day was a cruise day, in Glacier Bay park.

Our ship, the Volendam, docked in Skagway	Doug and MK enter the great white north	Doug and MK in the Yukon
			The Saddle part of the "Paddle and Saddle" Adventure...
...And the Paddle part.	Spirit Lake, Yukon	A moose (or is it an elk?) and her cub	Brown Bear (picture taken safely from inside our tour bus)
The same brown bear (his good side)	Sawtooth Mountains	Doug and MK returning to Alaska

All images Copyright © 2006 Doug Burton and MK Johnson, and are not to be used without direct written permission of the photographers.