The road tracklog 
from Skagway to Juneau by ferry via Haines
on 2011/06/06  
from Juneau to Haines by ferry
on 2011/06/09
from Haines to the border by road
on 2011/06/11

The border of Canada was open but without control, 27 kilometers further away the border of the USA was open but with an effective and good child control. My passport was recorded, the prints of my ten fingers seized and my portrait drawn. I paid US$6 and filled out the ad hoc green card. The procedure lasted at more 15 minutes. I entered Skagway around 8 a.m. local time to collect booklets in Visitor Center then to ask where the maritime office of the ferry company was. I had the secrecy hope that there was a space for my truck towards Juneau via Haines on Monday June 06 with a return to Haines on June 09. It was still a lucky day, I thus booked an outward journey to Juneau and a return to Haines. Thus I will be back to Canada on June 11. The town of Skagway owes its fame by Gold Rush from 1898 to 1910. It is entirely restored and shops now sell trinkets for women, and gifts. The museum is interesting but without more.

Enter Alaska 
Hwy #2 
05/06/2011 

Alaska purchase to Tsar Alexander II 
Skagway museum 
05/06/2011 

Broadway St 
Skagway 
05/06/2011 

Broadway St 
Skagway  
05/06/2011 

Broadway St 
Skagway 
05/06/2011 

I was going to see Dyea historic town, I were blocked by a too low bridge for my too heavy truck. I continued on foot to see, nothing, only interpretive panels. I bivouacked at a RV Park in the center town.

Chilkoot Trail 
Dyea  
05/06/2011 

Chilkoot Trail 
Dyea 
05/06/2011 

 
Dyea Historic Town  
05/06/2011 

In Skagway the boarding was at 6 am for a departure at 7 am with a stop in Haines at 8 am. The arrival in Juneau was on time 1:30 pm. The cruising in Alaska's Inside Passage was of any beauty in spite of a cloudy sky, summits were still caped with snow. The port of ferry is at 14 miles away from Juneau where three huge cruise ships rode at anchor of which two are registered in Holland. The afternoon was devoted to the organization of my stay by visiting the Visitor Centre and by booking a boat tour for the following day to see glaciers and maritime fauna, reason of this stay in Juneau which is the capital of Alaska. I finished the day in the public library to publish  pictures which I had not been able to do in Skagway due to the too slow speed of Internet connection. I bivouacked at the port of the Douglas having bought a two days permit.

Ferry 
Skagway 
06/06/2011 

Landscape 
Corridor  
06/06/2011 

Glacier 
Corridor 
06/06/2011 

Cruise ships 
Juneau  
06/06/2011 

By a beautiful sunny day the cruise in Tracy Arm lasted approximately 10 hours which is “One of the World's Great Fjords” according to the agency folder. The panegyric is deserved. It was an enchantment, waterfalls descending steep slopes, icebergs of an immaculate whiteness, omnipresent fauna and the highlight of the spectacle Sawyer Glacier with ice side falls  under the effect of the sun and the move of the glacier in a thunderous noise. Highly recommendable.

Tracy Arm, Iceberg 
Juneau 
07/06/2011 

Tracy Arm, Seagulls 
Juneau  
07/06/2011 

Tracy Arm, Waterfalls 
Juneau 
07/06/2011 

Tracy Arm, Seal 
Juneau  
07/06/2011 

Tracy Arm, Sawyer Glacier 
Juneau 
07/06/2011 

Tracy Arm, Bald Eagle 
Juneau  
07/06/2011 

Tracy Arm, Birds 
Juneau 
07/06/2011 

Tracy Arm, Orca 
Juneau  
07/06/2011 

For several days I had been to inflate again the front left tire which had a slow puncture. This morning as of 7:30 am I warned a car of patrol and I extremely politely asked the police officer to indicate to me a truck tire workshop. Extremely nicely he consulted an Internet site on his mobile and gave me an address in the industrial park of the airport where I arrived as of 8:00. Half an hour later the tire was repaired at a cost of US$36.75. At the time of the rotation of the four tires in Canada the cost had been CA$246.40. As I already wrote Canada is significantly more expensive than the USA.
I spent the morning within Alaska State Museum which exhibits the civilization of Native and the colonization of Alaska since its purchase to Russia. It is remarkably didactic about the Eskimos' life and the construction of kayaks. The Juneau-Douglas Museum is centered on the development of Juneau, the gold rush and the declaration of the city as capital of the State.

Basketry 
Juneau, State Museum 
08/06/2011 

Eagle Hat 
Juneau, State Museum  
07/06/2011 

Discovery of Alaska 
Juneau, State Museum 
08/06/2011 

Purchase of Alaska 
Juneau, State Museum  
07/06/2011 

USA payment 
Juneau, State Museum 
08/06/2011 

Indian village 
Juneau, State Museum  
07/06/2011 

I strolled then in downtown area of which the main part of shops is devoted to tap money to tourists who unload per thousands out of cruise ships. In two days I saw four ships of different origin, they arrive in the morning at dawn and leave at the night. Juneau is on the cruising road.

St Nicolas Orthodox Church 
Juneau, State Museum 
08/06/2011 

Red Dog Saloon 
Juneau, State Museum  
07/06/2011 

Thursday 09 in morning I went to Mendenhall Glacier. It is only one of the many frontal parts of the Juneau fields glacier. Since the 1700's the glacier moved back from 2.5 miles. The color of the glacier is blue because it absorbs all the colors of the visible light except blue. The check-in ferry is at 14:30 for a departure at 16:30. At the ferry terminal in Juneau I became acquainted with Steve and his son going to Anchorage, they spoke French very well. I journeyed in their company sharing their live in Alaska.

 
Mendenhall Glacier 
09/06/2011 

 
Mendenhall Glacier  
09/06/2011 

Interpretive Centre 
Mendenhall Glacier 
09/06/2011 

250 year old glacier ice 
Mendenhall Glacier  
09/06/2011 

The following day visiting Haines I again met them in Sheldon Museum. Indeed during the morning I visited two of three sights of the city. American Bald Eagle Foundation centered on the eagle symbol of the Federation of the USA. A video then a presentation in situ of an eagle highlighted the abundant fauna of the area. I hoped to see eagles the following day in Chilkat Vallée along Haines Hwy, Hwy # 3, towards Haines Jct.

Bald Eagle Foundation 
Haines 
10/06/2011 

Bald Eagle Foundation 
Haines  
10/06/2011 

Then I went to Sheldom Museum split as usual between the civilization of First Nations and the vacuum attic of the First Settlers. The center pieces are blankets of the chiefs of various clans with the symbolic design of the animal representative of the clan.

Sheldon Museum, Wolf Clan Design 
Haines 
10/06/2011 

Sheldon Museum, Traditional Dancing 
Haines  
10/06/2011 

In the early afternoon I strolled within Fort William H. Seward of the name of the American negotiator of the Alaska purchase from Russia. There as elsewhere buildings are distributed around the parade ground. On the site a Longhouse was rebuilt. In the late afternoon I returned to my bivouac of the day before along Lutak Inlet.

Historic Fort Seward 
Haines 
10/06/2011 

Chilkat Tribal House 
Haines  
10/06/2011 

Ah the beautiful days, still a divine day... I saw a bald eagle in the USA, a black bear and waterfalls with an impressing flow in Canada. Between the two sights I crossed the border without control in the USA and with a stamp and questions justifying of the customs officer's function in Canada. This day was in spite of very gloomy, covered weather, snow, cold, a pass at approximately 1100 meters high and landscapes announcing the far north with scattered trees.

Bald Eagle 
Hwy #7 
11/06/2011 

Interpretive Centre, closed 
Klukwan  
11/06/2011 

Landscape 
Hwy #7 
11/06/2011