It's rained the whole time we've been here. It's rained for 36 straight hours before we got here. Our excursion went from 5.5 hrs into the Yukon to 2 hrs to where a rock slide shut down the highway just inside Canada. An annoyance to us but a very big deal if you live here. It won't be open until Sunday. We thought maybe we should have done a rail excursion until we heard the train was also shut down because of a rock slide. Bad for the tour operators but the shops in town were rejoicing. Everyone on our bus from the NCL ship had to get off since the shorter tour wasn't an option. That left us half full. Sucks for them. Good for us.
Our tour guide was just winging it as he went. Someone mentioned coffee so our first stop was a Starbucks about 200yds from the pier. He also pointed out a restroom and oddly enough all 12 of us took advantage. Mind you we were about 90 seconds into our tour at that point. That tells you something about the collective bladders of cruise ship passengers. Clouds obscured a lot of the scenery but he did take us past a lot he was planning on buying and building a house on. It was one of those days where if you wanted to complain there was plenty to complain about but if you wanted to enjoy the day there was plenty to enjoy. The scenery was great and with all the rain the waterfalls were roaring. But then that's why there were rocks and mud on the road and railroad tracks causing our problems to begin with.
Since we had extra time I decided to add my own personal pub crawl to the tour options. I had a beer in every place on the main street of Skagway with either bar, brewery, or saloon in the name. It wasn't as difficult as you might think.
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