Jessica and I had the opportunity to visit Juneau, AK, in June 2008, as I was invited to give a presentation on a Sports Medicine topic. Since we were going to be in the Great White North, I chose "Hijinks at the Hockey Rink," and spoke about common ice hockey injuries and rehabilitation. (Josh, you'll appreciate that, when I presented it for Wake Forest's residents, I titled it "Ice Ice Baby!" and had a certain well known song starting things off...) Despite my nerves, it seemed to be pretty well received- I've been invited back in 2010 for another presentation!
Juneau is a beautiful town. For a capital city, however, it's pretty bare bones. The industry in the town is the cruise business-- we had at least 10 cruise ships in harbor while we were there for five days. The cruise lines own most of the stores in town as well. When the passengers go back on board, the town shuts down. Oh, and Jessica wants you to know-- if you're going on an Alaskan cruise, be sure to know it's not the Carribean-- some of the folks we met/saw seemed to be a little out of their element!
Welcome to Juneau in mid- Summer... High Temp 57 degrees while we were there
The sun stays out till 11:30... town shuts down at 8
My wife's lovely smile never shuts down
While we were there, we had the opportunity to do several neat things-- we went to "the beach," took a Glacier/Whale Watching Tour, took in an all-you-can eat salmon bake at an abandoned gold mine, and went on the Mount Roberts Tramway and experienced a authentic Native American dance ceremony.
Here's the beach.... we had a picnic, but, for some reason, no one got in the water...
This is Sawyer Glacier- water temp is 37 degrees F around the glacier
Two of several Bald Eagles we saw
Mendenhall Glacier from the Visitors Center
One of our Native American performers
We can't wait to go back! Next time-- I'm going fishin'!
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