Shadowmeboy helps close down Alaska on the Bliss!

[shadowmeboy]

 

Glacial Calving

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was a small calving, but awesome to see! The crack is cool to hear.

 

 

Note: off to bed for me. More hopefully tomorrow!

[BigNance]

Beautiful pix!!  Thanks for all the work you have done for our entertainment!!

[shadowmeboy]

 

More glacial calving

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With that I headed inside to get some lunch and warm up.

[shadowmeboy]

 

I went to the local for lunch.

 

 

A few of us met up to play LCR (left-Center-Right)

 

 

I had fun, but did not win.

 

 

After a bit, I headed back outside. The scenery was amazing. This part was obscured by rain when we sailed in that morning.

 

 

 

 

Yes, I was looking for wildlife along the shores.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[shadowmeboy]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[shadowmeboy]

 

 

 

 

 

 

Glacier Bay National Park boat coming to pick up the Rangers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

heading away from the Bliss after picking up the Rangers from our ship.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A final shot of Glacier Bay National Park

[dtiger]

I loved the White Pass train ride.

 

Your photos are fantastic and I enjoying looking at them, thanks for posting.

[luvcruzing]

Beautiful pictures. 

 

Hope all is back to normal at home, and your dad is recovering well.

[shadowmeboy]

On 1/10/2020 at 11:18 AM, dtiger said:

I loved the White Pass train ride.

 

Your photos are fantastic and I enjoying looking at them, thanks for posting.

 

Me too!

 

I am glad you enjoy them!

[shadowmeboy]

On 1/10/2020 at 1:29 PM, luvcruzing said:

Beautiful pictures. 

 

Hope all is back to normal at home, and your dad is recovering well.

 

Update: My Dad has flown to Florida after his appointment the other day. He starts his job on 1/13. He was recovering well, but did have to have a abscess drained and packed. Susan and my mom drove to Florida and got their stuff down their. Susan has flown back and started back at school.

 

I have been extremely busy. I am starting a new job on the 21st of January. I as a result have been trying to train people on all the aspect of the jobs I do at my current job. Thus I have been exhausted and not able to work on this review much! I hope it will get better in the next few days!

 

 I am sorry in the delay of this review, I feel bad.

 

Matthew

[shadowmeboy]

 

a boat out in Icy Strait

 

 

Icy Strait

 

 

Gustavus, Alaska 

 

 

 

 

There she blows!

 

 

 

 

Icy Strait Point (Hoonah, Alaska)

 

 

 

 

 

[shadowmeboy]

 

 

 

See you next summer Icy Strait Point!

 

 

Alaska State Ferry

 

 

I got me a treat! A Raspberry Guava Mojito from Sugarcane!

 

 

Waterfront at night

 

 

I headed for Dinner at Cagney's

 

- I will pick it up here next time.

[SenatorsFan]

Congratulations on starting a new job! Don't feel bad about the pace of your review, everyone also has a life away from here. 😀

Heather

[cruisequeen4ever]

Good luck with your new job! 

[shadowmeboy]

On 1/13/2020 at 7:57 PM, SenatorsFan said:

Congratulations on starting a new job! Don't feel bad about the pace of your review, everyone also has a life away from here. 😀

Heather

 

Thanks! 

[shadowmeboy]

On 1/19/2020 at 2:42 AM, cruisequeen4ever said:

Good luck with your new job! 

 

I start Tuesday the 21st.

[shadowmeboy]

Dinner tonight was at Cagney's. I used my platinum voucher and brought someone with me. Amanda accompanied me. I met her at the MDR when I did a single table with other people two nights earlier. She had a pick one perk and did the drink package. We had a great conversation that night at dinner, and so since no one from the solo meet up group took me up on my offer to go, I offered for her to use the other half of the certificate and join me for dinner. Fast forward to tonight, and we met outside Cagney's.

 

 

Menu

 

 

 

Amanda got the crab cake

 

 

I got the Shrimp Cocktail

 

 

My steak!

 

 

with sides

 

 

Dessert menu

 

 

Amanda's 7 layer cake dessert

 

 

Raspberry Crème Brulee for me

[shadowmeboy]

After dinner it was off to Jersey Boys!

 

 

I saw Jersey Boys on my last Bliss cruise, but I fell asleep during part of it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I stayed awake through the show.

[shadowmeboy]

I headed up to the top decks afterwards.

 

 

The northern lights had a chance of being out this night. It was too bright up top. I headed down to deck 8 and the waterfront. It was darkest on the aft of the ship. Met some of our other solo sailors to see if we could see anything.

 

 

dslr didn't focus very well.

 

 

After a while of looking to no luck, we headed into the local for a late night meal.

 

 

late night menu

 

 

pretzels and cheese

 

 

Joe got some wings

 

I didn't get picture of what everyone else got. I ended up in bed at 230 am!

 

[shadowmeboy]

 

Dailies for Ketchikan

 

 

 

 

 

 

Along with the dailies, the dreaded disembarkation information was delivered.

 

 

 

 

[justafirefly]

Good luck starting your new job today, @shadowmeboy! I hope all is going well!

 

When you have a moment to reply, do you remember approximately what time the ship entered Glacier Bay National Park and what time it departed? What times it passed some of the "must see" landmarks such as Margerie Glacier? I read another review where the author said she was unaware of what/when to be looking for the sights that day and pretty much missed them. I'd like to be able to have a tentative plan for when to be out on deck to soak up all the scenery. Thank you!

[Loucat]

Hope you had a great first day on your new job and thank you for a great review and incredible pics!

[shadowmeboy]

18 hours ago, justafirefly said:

Good luck starting your new job today, @shadowmeboy! I hope all is going well!

 

When you have a moment to reply, do you remember approximately what time the ship entered Glacier Bay National Park and what time it departed? What times it passed some of the "must see" landmarks such as Margerie Glacier? I read another review where the author said she was unaware of what/when to be looking for the sights that day and pretty much missed them. I'd like to be able to have a tentative plan for when to be out on deck to soak up all the scenery. Thank you!

 

I am going off of time stamps on my pictures here:

 

7:30 am sail into GPNP - be up earlier if you can the waters just outside GB, Icy Strait, have a ton of whale activity.

 

8 am - Rangers board the ship

 

10am - you will be up to Lamplugh Glacier

 

Lamplugh is where John Hopkins Intlet and the Turr Inlet split. There are two ships in Glacier Bay each day. One ship will go first to John Hopkins and the other goes to Margarie. Our sailing we went John Hopkins first.

 

John Hopkins - 10:45 ish

 

Margerie - noon

 

Rangers got picked up at about 3:30 pm. 

 

Rangers will have educational displays onboard. Suggestion: have a very light snack at 6am/630am; 9am go have breakfast; Have lunch after your second glacier (ie 1 -130 pm) then get back outside and watch sailing out. I stayed on deck 8 on the Bliss the whole time. Observation lounge is way too crowded and windows create reflections especially with how bright it is in there. The front of the ship is open, but crowded at the glaciers. find a couch on the waterfront and stake your claim!

[shadowmeboy]

18 hours ago, justafirefly said:

Good luck starting your new job today, @shadowmeboy! I hope all is going well!

 

12 hours ago, Loucat said:

Hope you had a great first day on your new job and thank you for a great review and incredible pics!

 

Thank you, Day 1 went great! 

[justafirefly]

3 hours ago, shadowmeboy said:

 

I am going off of time stamps on my pictures here:

 

7:30 am sail into GPNP - be up earlier if you can the waters just outside GB, Icy Strait, have a ton of whale activity.

 

8 am - Rangers board the ship

 

10am - you will be up to Lamplugh Glacier

 

Lamplugh is where John Hopkins Intlet and the Turr Inlet split. There are two ships in Glacier Bay each day. One ship will go first to John Hopkins and the other goes to Margarie. Our sailing we went John Hopkins first.

 

John Hopkins - 10:45 ish

 

Margerie - noon

 

Rangers got picked up at about 3:30 pm. 

 

Rangers will have educational displays onboard. Suggestion: have a very light snack at 6am/630am; 9am go have breakfast; Have lunch after your second glacier (ie 1 -130 pm) then get back outside and watch sailing out. I stayed on deck 8 on the Bliss the whole time. Observation lounge is way too crowded and windows create reflections especially with how bright it is in there. The front of the ship is open, but crowded at the glaciers. find a couch on the waterfront and stake your claim!

 

Thank you SO much for taking your time to share this helpful information! I really appreciate it! 🙂