waterfall in Skagway

July 15, 2014
I had today off until 8! That was really nice :) I slept in, went off the ship with Jordan before his tour with his friend, and hung out on my own for a bit, came back on the ship for a late lunch and to keep Lindsey company for the last little bit of her port day. Abrie, the techspert and I had made plans if it was nice to head out on our own photography expedition, so after his 3:30 class, we got our stuff and walked to the Gold Rush Cemetery and Lower Reid Falls just outside of town.

It was really fun actually. We had good timing because as we were walking along by the railroad tracks, all the train tours were returning, so we got some interesting pictures of the trains, and the tracks, and flowers. It was a bit longer of a walk than I was expecting, but that was probably because we stopped so often for photos. The weather was beautiful (I was in sandals!), so it was the perfect day for it.

It cooled off immensely when we arrived at the cemetery, under the cover of trees and right at the bottom of the mountain, where the wind was constantly blowing. I’m not that superstitious, but it would be really easy to believe that ghosts were wandering around the cemetery. The cool breeze, the sound of the wind through the leaves, the creaking of trees as they bent with the wind, the graves over a hundred years old…

We followed the path through the cemetery up to the waterfall. It was much colder there, a valley with no sunlight finding it’s way down into it, and of course the rushing water. We got a bit adventurous and climbed around with our cameras trying to get some interesting, atypical shots. It was fun, even if I did get muddy and slide around a few times. Nothing happened to the camera at least, jeans can be washed, but my camera is much more precious and not so easily fixed if anything happens! It was fun. It was getting late, and closer to all aboard time, so we made our way back to the ship, and I had a little bit of time to go through my pictures before I had to leave my hall before they started stripping and waxing the floor (an hour before I had to be at work :( I went instead and hung out with the kids and tweens to kill time since I couldn’t be in my room).