On our first day in Juneau, we took yet another tram to the top of Mt. Roberts and walked Father Brown's Trail.  We saw two para-gliders  take off from the top of the mountain=http:// It was so cool. You just saw a sliver of color and a tiny body, hovering and sailing above Juneau.

On our second day, we went to a glacier.  A glacier!!!  We could see 7 miles of it, but it's really 12 miles long, and 1 mile wide.  There is a gorgeous, huge, rushing waterfall next to it.  It flows into the lake that has formed in front of the glacier.  There are small banks and miniature beaches that used to be covered with ice.  In the "lake" are small, interestingly shaped icebergs.  One looked like a nose!  All of this was part of the glacier once.  The whole area was covered with ice.  When was it all covered?  In the 1950s.  That's is NOT very long ago.  The glacier shortens 2 to 5 feet everyday.  A ranger told me that the glacier may not be there in OUR LIFETIME if it continues to shorten consistently.   But, she also said that the world has warmed before, that this "Global Warming" might be a phase. The world has experienced more than one ice age.  It may experience one again soon.  So, global warming isn't always the answer.  

After that amazing afternoon, we went to downtown Juneau and stopped in the "historic" Red Dog Saloon for a snack. Complete tourist trap.  We were out of there in an hour.  The thing about Alaskan port cities:  cruise ships dock there, and all the cruise ship tourists flood the "city".  (I don't know if you can call them cities, they're so small.)  So, these jewelry shops follow them.  We walked by at least 30 jewelry shops.  It gets a bit annoying.  

 Today we are getting back on the ferry.  We'll be on it for about 6 or 7 hours, and we'll stop and get off in Skagway.