Saturated in Beauty

On July 8, we boarded the ferry once again, this time for a six-hour trip up the Lynn Canal from Juneau to Skagway, by far the most beautiful ferry trek on our journey yet. Skagway was one of the gateways to the Yukon Gold Rush back in the late 1800s when “the rich were getting richer, and the poor were getting poorer” and people were feeling desperate. Sound familiar? Anyway, the beauty of this channel was breathtaking. The undulating green mountains were not on some distant horizon, but came right to the water’s edge. No longer shrouded in mist, they stood grand and imposing. We couldn’t take our eyes off them. After hours of mountain gazing, I felt saturated in their beauty and needed to go into the cabin and rest.