Last night’s movie aboard the Viking Orion was appropriately “Call of the Wild” after highlights of the Queen’s funeral. Dinner was at The Restaurant while Manfredi’s is reserved for tonight. We got our first tastes of the Silver Spirits premium wines package in the Explorer’s Lounge as we watched the ship leave the dock from the uppermost level. We’re on our way out of Canada and will be in Alaska in two days.

It was too windy this morning to run on the Promenade Deck, so I had no choice but to use the treadmill. You can barely feel the ship moving now as it makes its way through the narrow Seymour Narrows. A large group of Dolphins performed just outside our outdoor patio deck as we were having breakfast in the room. My wife left to play bridge while I started the laundry. She’ll be back in the room soon so we can go to lunch, but I’m in no hurry as the scenery is magnificent. 

After a few trips to the buffet, we finished folding our clean clothes and went to an astronomy presentation on “The Sky Above Us.” My wife is also interested in the cooking classes and may drag me along. I’m content with just watching the Canadian shoreline pass by – mostly uninhabited by human beings and the home of the wild living in the endless, vast forests along this passageway to the Pacific. Mount Waddington (13,176 feet) is in the distance. I prefer observing nature from a distance in the air conditioned comfort of our stateroom, stepping  outside on our sunny patio on occasion or dining on the aft-deck.