Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/28

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Subject: [Leica] Alaska Cruise- Juneau
From: hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 09:43:51 +1000
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Yeah 'cos smugglers and whalers often use 116,000 ton cruise ships as their
vessel of choice and that thirty caliber could easily sink you on command!
More like they were part of the tourist show;-) or checking out the
passengers ;-);-)

Cheers,
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman



On 29 May 2012 05:15, <grduprey at mchsi.com> wrote:

> Thanks Jim,  Yes they circled the entire ship for about 45 minutes before
> they were satisfied we were harmless. ;)  Juneau was our first stop on the
> trip, and we never saw them or an other C.G. boat on the trip.
>
> Gene
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Monday, May 28, 2012 1:24:07 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Alaska Cruise- Juneau
>
> Gene,
>
> Your Coast Guard photo is a great action shot.  They seem serious, manning
> the assault gun.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <grduprey at mchsi.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Monday, May 28, 2012 1:10 PM
> Subject: [Leica] Alaska Cruise- Juneau
>
>
> >I have made a new album to post my Alaska photos.  Here is the first
> >selection from Juneau.
> >
> > As we approached Juneau, we were shadowed by the U.S. Coast Guard:
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/Alaska/coast+guard.jpg.html
> >
> > We took a Whale watching cruise while in Juneau:
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/Alaska/whale+tail4.jpg.html
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/Alaska/whale+fin.jpg.html
> >
> > Comments are welcome.  Best Viewed large.
> >
> > Gene
> >
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