August 24, 2012
Cruise Day 4
A busy day, starting seeing the Juneau Suburbs, left, and our U.S. Coast Guard escort gun boats, same as in SF: 
Downtown Juneau is a big city.
Things different than in California, the floatplanes and the telecommunications.
Check the dishes -- Telecommunications satellites are in a geostationary orbit above the equator. In L.A., dishes are about 45 degrees up. In Juneau the dishes about 10 degrees off the horizon.
Anyhow.... we have a triple-tour for today. Starts with the Salmon Hatchery. They toss the fingerings into the river for them to go free in the ocean, and they come up the stairs back home after years later. The Rain Forest is wet and green. The last tour was the Mendenhall Glacier.
We have a little more time for a little shopping and the sights -- a fur bikini and a fur monokini, and just to prove Juneau is a Big City, Graffiti!
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