Still working on Eastern time zone time (and maybe a little Portugal’s time) I found myself walking around Juneau at 4:30 in the morning. I actually woke up at 3:30am local time and as it is the summer solstice it was daylight. I enjoyed my wonderings through this Capital City of only 31,000 residents. When I made it down to the docks I saw that there were no less than 4 mega cruise ships in the harbor and realized that when all those people wake up the nature of this town was going to change.
Later in the morning Sandy and I made it to the Rookery Diner and enjoyed a great breakfast surrounded by both cruisers and locals.
Around noon we took the tram to the top of Mt. Roberts where we walked some gentle trails. Along the way we saw totem poles, beautiful scenery and several bald eagles.
Then it was back down the mountain and to the far side of town where there was a solstice celebration attended almost entirely by locals plus us two Ohioans. Directly next to the festival was Tracy’s King Crab Shack No. 2 where we enjoyed the sweet meat of those crustaceans dipped in tons of melted butter. But for the price, I could have eaten my weight in them.
Then, at exactly 10:07pm, the official setting of the sun, Sandy and I lifted a flask to the longest day of the year. Officially18 hours sixteen minutes long but when considering the elongated dawns and dusks it is truly an endless day.
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