First Stops

Jo Jones
http://mixedbookbag.blogspot.com
http://jojonestravelinglady.blogspot.com





The first picture is of Pouerto Limon in Costa Rica.  I just took a walk around town.  Visited the local market and found my pair of Costa Rice earrings.
Two more are of the trip through the Panama Canal.  The last one is Pamana City or the skycap the Canal built according to Barbara our Location Guide.

Entering the Suez Canal

Cooking in Color in Sir Lanka

These are pictures from the cooking class I took in Sir Lanka. We cooked at the house of the lady in the photo. We made several kinds of curry. The two in the photos are beet curry and cabbage curry. There was a vegetable curry with mostly eggplant and a chicken curry. All had tons of spices in them and went great with the rice we also cooked. For dessert we had curd (Buffalo Curd) with honey. It was very good. Everything but the curd I can do when I get home. My spices may be different so the curry will be slightly different. Sir Lanka curry is one of the best I have eaten.

We cooked in the big clay pots you see in the photos. She had gas burners under them. The picture with the stones shows the appetizer we had before the meal.

Bali

We were greater with some really beautiful dances when we arrived in Bali. Many of our crew are from Bali and they got to spend time with their families. A nice day all around.

Townsville Australia

We got caught on the edge of a storm leaving Sydney and could not get into Mooloolaba. Instead we docked at Townsville and had a very nice day. They had the biggest aquarium with only natural living coral based on the Great Barrier Reef. While it was not really big it was very nice and everything in each exhibit was natural and living. We cruised the Great Barrier Reef after leaving and while we did not see much we did see a few atolls like the one in the photo.

Cairns Australia

It was very hot in both Cairns and Darwin and I did not last long in either. I did get a photo of the alligator and his friend. I wanted to go to the small wildlife park at the top of the casino but ran out of energy before I made it there..

Vietman

I watch this combination of boat for our two days in Vietnam. It flat one looked like a drilling platform. The lowered something through the center and pulled it up. The other one stayed right with them. They had a small round wicker boat that they used to come and go from the shore. You can see it at the back of the boat.

Re: Bubbles

Catcat would have a blast with that.

On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Jo Jones <jonesjar@gmail.com> wrote:

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This is the bubble man. He was performing for all of us.

Bubbles

Flowers

Beautiful flowers in Picton. We got a small group when we left the ship.

Avatoru, Rangiroa

View from ship and where we sailed in

Moorea

Beautiful to look at, hot to visit

International Date Line

I went to bed last night on Wednesday and woke up today on Friday.  We crossed the International Date Line last night.  Changing the day is much easier than gaining an hours when we cross a time zone.

We are at sea now for four days.  Our last shore day was in the Cook Islands.  We could not get tenders into the planned bay so we went around the island to another break in the coral reef and went on shore there.  Kathy (a new friend from my dinner table_ and I went in to swin and snorkel for a hour or a hour and a half.  That plan did not workl

The entrance to the lagoon was very narrow and the tenders had to be very careful coming in.  The tender after ours did not make it.  As we were sitting on the beach watching and getting read to go in the water we saw the tender miss the passage and get stuck on the reef.  It had a full load of passengers who were stuck with the tender.  It took many tries and about four hours to get it off the reef and towed back to the ship.

No one could leave the island or the ship while this was going on.  Fortunately we had a great shady spot on the beach to sit and watch the efforts to rescue the tender and the passengers.

It was good that we had that as the swimming and snorkeling were not good at all.

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Catch up

I went to bed last night on Wednesday and woke up today on Friday.  We crossed the International Date Line last night.  Changing the day is much easier than gaining an hours when we cross a time zone.

We are at sea now for four days.  Our last shore day was in the Cook Islands.  We could not get tenders into the planned bay so we went around the island to another break in the coral reef and went on shore there.  Kathy (a new friend from my dinner table_ and I went in to swin and snorkel for a hour or a hour and a half.  That plan did not workl

The entrance to the lagoon was very narrow and the tenders had to be very careful coming in.  The tender after ours did not make it.  As we were sitting on the beach watching and getting read to go in the water we saw the tender miss the passage and get stuck on the reef.  It had a full load of passengers who were stuck with the tender.  It took many tries and about four hours to get it off the reef and towed back to the ship.

No one could leave the island or the ship while this was going on.  Fortunately we had a great shady spot on the beach to sit and watch the efforts to rescue the tender and the passengers.

It was good that we had that as the swimming and snorkeling were not good at all.

Jo Jones

http://mixedbookbag.blogspot.com

http://jojonestravelinglady.blogspot.com

Hubbard Glacier

I have been home for two weeks but just downloaded some of my photos today.  We visited the Hubbard Glacier.  This is one of the few glaciers that is still growing.  It is hard to see the scale from the pictures but it is several hundred feet high and several miles long.  Hubbard is my maiden name so I was thrilled that we visited.  It is named for the Hubbard who started the National Geogrphic Society, something I did not know until we visited.

Anchorage Flowers

Glacier

We could not go to Tracy Arm because of weather so the Captain took up to a glacier that had a better entrance.  No one was disappointed by the choice.  I was one of the people who spent their time outside during the 3 hours were cruised to and were in front of the glacier.

 The Glacier from a distance.  You cannot tell how large it is because there is nothing to use for scale.

Me on deck of the ship with the glacier in the background.  You can tell how windy it is by how my hair is blowing.

That is a good sized ship in front of the glacier.  It gives some idea of the scale  and how far away we were.

Everyone outside on the front of the ship.  You got here from deck 6.  I took the photo outside on deck 11.

Seals taking a ride on one of the ice flows from the glacier.

One of the hanging valleys along the route.  The water is coming from another part of the glacier.

Ketchikan, Alaska

This is my second time to Ketchikan.  The big difference this time is the sun.  This is the rainforest capital of the US so we all expected rain and were very happy to get sun.  I took a self-guided walking tour this time and am posting some of the photos below.  My favorite is the cat. This did not email right so the photos that go with the info are at the bottom of the post.




Leaving Seattle.  The haze is the smoke in the air.




The first view as I got off of the ship.




One of the totem poles around Ketchikan. This one is
Raven Stealing the Sun




Info about Raven Stealing the Sun Totem Pole




Entrance to Creek Street.   This is the old red light district and is now filled with shops.




View of the creek.  There are places where you can see salmon in the creek.




Ladder for the salmon to use when going upstream to lay eggs.




Sign says it all.




This is my favorite photo.  The cat turned just as I snapped the picture so I got him face on.  He was sitting on a part of the bridge outside the rail and appeared to be hunting.  It had a very thick coat with great colors and looked like it would be very soft and nice to pet.
Jo Jones
http://mixedbookbag.blogspot.com
http://jojonestravelinglady.blogspot.com

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Jo Jones
Http://mixedbookbag.blogspot.com
Reviews and Recommendations of Books, Series, Authors, and Book Related Materials
Http://jojonestravelinglady.blogspot.com
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Seattle

I made it to Seattle yesterday and will be on the cruise ship later this morning.  More later.