We drove to Seattle, and stayed Saturday night with my son-in-law's grandparents. Sunday afternoon we arrived at the Princess Cruises dock, and went through a screening rather similar to that which you might experience getting onto an airliner--perhaps not quite as secure. (A shoebomb won't sink a cruise ship.)
As you leave the docks, you see these cranes that were the model for the big weapons in Star Wars.
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You also get a nice view of Seattle's skyline.
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It has been a long time since I have taken a trip by boat, and never on one this large. The propwash at the stern of the ship is just astonishing.
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The Olympic Peninsula has a pretty impressive mountain range (if my memory serves me correctly, the primary peak is Mt. Olympus) on the south side of the Straits of Juan de Fuca.
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We were making pretty good headway, and then abruptly slowed down as we approached the open ocean--and apparently to allow this Holland America liner to pass us.
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Once we were out in open ocean, the combination of ocean swells and wind put up this marvelously beautiful spray.
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Floating debris--yes, there was plenty of it, such as this piece of Styrofoam, and these two gulls sitting on a piece of driftwood.
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There were lots of seabirds either floating or taking off:
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The second day was entirely at sea--an apparently uninhabited coast line for most of Vancouver Island, and nearly the entire British Columbia mainland coast, seemed to have at most a few villages. What few islands we saw were like this one.
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