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Tag Archives: history
San Juan Islands
Washington state’s San Juan Islands consist of the peaks of an ancient mountain range on the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate. As this plate subducts under the North American Plate in the Cascadia Subduction Zone which runs from Vancouver Island … Continue reading
Posted in USA, Washington
Tagged history, photos, San Juan Islands, travel, Washington State
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Herculaneum
Pretty much everyone has heard of Pompeii, which was destroyed in an eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD. Not so many know about the nearby town of Herculaneum. At our port stop in Naples on Carnival Vista we took … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival, Europe, Ports of Call, Shore Excursions, Vista
Tagged buried city, Herculaneum, history, Italy, Mount Vesuvius, Naples, photos, volcanic eruption, volcano
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Sydney, Nova Scotia
Sydney seems to be a popular thing to name a city. There’s Sydney, Australia of course, and on the west coast of Canada, Sidney B.C. on Vancouver Island. Maybe Canada has a thing for Sydney on islands because they also … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Holland America, Port Cities, Ports of Call, Veendam
Tagged Canada, fiddle, giant fiddle, history, Holland America, Nova Scotia, photos, Sydney, Veendam
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Walking Boston’s Freedom Trail
If you have a day to spend exploring Boston, walking the freedom trail brings you to a lot of historical sites and unless you choose to go inside any that have a fee or donation box it doesn’t cost anything. … Continue reading
Posted in Day Trips, Holland America, Port Cities, USA, Veendam
Tagged Boston, Freedom Trail, history, lobster roll, Old North Church, Paul Revere, Paul Revere's house, photos, revolutionary war, travel
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Boston Trolley Tour and River Cruise
Boston, the largest city in New England and one of the oldest in the USA, was founded by Puritan settlers from England. The city had a key role in the American Revolution, which of course means it now has historical … Continue reading
Posted in Day Trips, Holland America, Port Cities, USA, Veendam
Tagged Boston, historic buildings, history, people, photos, river cruise, subway, travel, Trolley Tour
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Port Arthur, Tasmania
On our cruise to Tasmania, Carnival Legend made its first stop at Port Arthur on a gray cloudy day. Normally it costs money to see the historic buildings there, but the ship’s tenders brought us right to the dock in … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Carnival, Legend, Ports of Call
Tagged Australia, Carnival, cruise, history, photos, Port Arthur, prison, ruins, Tasmania, travel
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Port Townsend
At the northern tip of the eastern end of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula sits a quaint little town called Port Townsend. Victorian architecture dominates the waterfront district, on the National Register of Historic Places since 1976. Nearby Fort Worden, now a … Continue reading
Posted in Port Cities, Un-Cruise Adventures, Washington, Wilderness Adventurer
Tagged history, movie location, photos, Port Townsend, small ship cruise, travel
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Craigdarroch Castle, Victoria
Ever since a brief evening stop in Victoria on the way back to Seattle from an Alaskan cruise on Holland America’s Westerdam, my sister, Aunt, and I wanted to go back for a longer visit. We decided to set up … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Day Trips, Port Cities
Tagged Black Ball Ferry, Craigdarroch Castle, history, photos, Victoria
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Port Angeles Underground
I always thought Seattle was unique in having raised the level of the city’s streets in the past and that the Seattle Underground Tour was the only tour of the historic underground that once upon a time was the … Continue reading
Posted in Port City Side Trips, Washington
Tagged history, old buildings, photos, Port Angeles, prohibition, tourist attractions, underground city
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Fort Casey Inn
In the not-so-distant past, most civilizations situated anywhere near large bodies of water viewed their biggest threats as coming from the sea. The invention of the airplane made many large forts built in formerly strategic locations around the world obsolete. … Continue reading
Posted in Washington
Tagged big gun, cousins, family reunion, Fort Casey, Fort Casey Inn, Fort Flagler, Fort Worden, history, old forts, photos, triangle of fire
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