Category Archives: Summer Contracts

It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere – At Sea – [08/10/2012]

There are moments when I look around at my surroundings and think ‘I have…such a cool job’. Sometimes those moments are few and far between, but standing in a packed entertainment office, with everyone laughing and throwing balloons around and … Continue reading

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Enshrouded – Glacier Bay – [08/08/2012]

Since we’re nearing the end of the season the weather has for the most part started to turn on us. We always joke that Alaska gets 363 days of rain a year, I don’t know the exact statistics but perhaps … Continue reading

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A Day For Picking Daisies – Ketchikan – [0726/2012]

Blue skies, sunshine People smiling everywhere that you go What a day for picking daisies And lots of red balloons… At long last (and honestly it feels like forever) my health seems to have balanced out and returned to normal. … Continue reading

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Outside Looking In – At Sea – [07/25/2012]

It’s a pity and a sin She doesn’t quite fit in Oh she really is a funny girl… They talk about the sensation of being alone in a crowd. Never has that been more true than when you’re on a … Continue reading

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Shape-shifting – Juneau – [07/23/2012]

For once a selkie finds her skin, neither bonds of steel nor bonds of love can keep her from the sea Or And the sailors say “Brandy, you’re a fine girl, what a good wife you would be, but my … Continue reading

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Enforced Silence – Vancouver – [07/21/2012]

It’s true that the long hours out here sometimes get ot you unexpectedly but when you go from your normal energetic relatively-perky self to basically a sloth in less than 72 hours? You start to be pretty certain that there’s … Continue reading

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Sunset Departures – Skagway – [07/17/2012]

As I watched our slow retreat from Skagway this afternoon I realized that this is the only true time we see the town for what it really is. One solitary empty street of carefully restored store-fronts, surrounded by a tiny … Continue reading

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Star-light, Star-bright – At Sea – [07/15/2012]

You might think you’ve seen the stars, but until you’ve seen them from the deck of a ship in the middle of the ocean, I would challenge whether you’ve seen them at all. With so little light pollution out here, … Continue reading

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The Roar of Solitude – Skagway – [07/10/2012]

I am ever a childe of wind and wave I was supposed to go on a 6 hour round trip hike today to Upper Dewey Lake. Ultimately the voice of sanity won over the desire to socialize and I decided … Continue reading

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Mermaid Weather – Juneau – [07/10/2012]

It’s bad luck to be singing about Pirates what with us mired in this unnatural fog And fog it is…lying over us like a blanket as we make our way to Juneau. It is pouring rain today; by the time … Continue reading

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