No, I'm not starting this back up this year. There just happened to be a ship in today that I didn't photograph last year in my Cruise Ship Watch series.
Here's the Sea Princess. I think it was doing tours in Europe last year, so that's why I didn't get it. It's longer than it appears in the photo; the angle is making it look short.
Well, this is it. This is the last installment of the Cruise Ship Watch series for the year. The season ends Monday with the Millennium. I'll leave the series in the sidebar for a while.
This is the Serenade of the Seas. It was only in town twice this year; once in the beginning of the season and now, once at the end.
We're coming down to the end of the cruise ships for the year. The 29th of this month marks the last ship of the year. There haven't been many new entries in this Cruise Ship Watch series lately because frankly, I already have most all of them.
Here's the Spirit of Columbia, it's another small ship owned by Cruise West. That's the Volendam in the background.
The Tahitian Princess is in today. Next year they're going to rename it Ocean Princess, to "reflect a more global theme". Just in the time it took me to walk back and get this posted, the sky has significantly clouded up. I can't see any blue anymore... Click the image to view full.
Here's the Tahitian Princess in Ketchikan, Alaska.
By now I must be close to having every ship... I've got another one planned for tomorrow, I'll have to look ahead on the schedule after that one to see when the next ship I have to get is. Like a friend of mine said, it's about like a collectible game: "Gotta catch them all!" I wonder if this is what it's like to play that Pokémon Snap game...
Anyway, the ships I photographed today are the Norwegian Pearl, Silver Shadow, and Westerdam. Click an image to view full.
Let's start with the Norwegian Pearl, docked in front of the Ketchikan Visitor Information and Restrooms.
Here's a ship that's not here too often, the Silver Shadow. It has the highest space-to-passenger ratio of any cruise ship.
Here's the Westerdam, taken from the Thomas Basin boat harbor breakwater.
One small cruise ship for today's Cruise Ship Watch, the Spirit of Endeavour (no wikipedia page). By one ship, I mean one ship I haven't yet photographed for the Cruise Ship Watch series. There were 5 cruise ships in total for today; the Golden Princess, Oosterdam, Statendam, and Sapphire Princess, along with the Spirit of Endeavour. Click the image to view full.
Here's the Spirit of Endeavour docked in Ketchikan, Alaska with the Golden Princess in the background.
This Cruise Ship Watch is a bit unique. Usually I combine all the cruise ships I photographed in a day into one post. Usually I get cruise ships when they're in service and have passengers aboard. Usually I just put up one picture per ship. This is the exception all-around. I present to you, the Spirit of Glacier Bay. Click an image to view full.
Spirit of Glacier Bay with the yellow oil containment boom.
This is the ship I spoke of earlier that ran aground, and it's here in Ketchikan, Alaska for repairs at the shipyard. You can see in the photos, they have a yellow oil containment boom surrounding the ship. It also must be taking on water still, because you can see that the bilge pumps are running.
Let me explain the reasons behind a few of the exceptions:
Anyway, here's the other pictures...
Spirit of Glacier Bay, awaiting repairs at the Ketchikan shipyard.
Water from the bilge pumps on the Spirit of Glacier Bay.
Two ships in today that I haven't previously photographed, the Carnival Spirit and Sapphire Princess. It's actually quite amazing how many ships go through Ketchikan. Before, I've always figured it was the same few ships over and over, kinda like the Norwegian Star has been this year. However, since I've been keeping track for this series, I've realized there's a ton of different ships that come here.
And yes, the Norwegian Star was one of the ships in today, again. Seems like that ship is always here. Click an image to view full.
Carnival Spirit, docked in Ketchikan and unloading passengers. It had just arrived about half an hour before this picture was taken.
Sapphire Princess in Ketchikan, Alaska.
Two ships in today that I have not photographed before for my blog, the Seven Seas Mariner and Ryndam. Click an image to view full (I wounder how many times I've typed that phrase now).
The Seven Seas Mariner coming in to dock. If you look closely, they don't even have any lines to the dock yet. You can also see a bit of turbulence from their thrusters at the rear of the ship.
The Ryndam docked in Ketchikan, Alaska.
Like I said in the last Cruise Ship Watch, there would be 5 ships in today that I haven't photographed for my blog. Well, I decided to stay in town so I could get them. So here are the Golden Princess, Spirit of '98 (no wikipedia page), Statendam, Oosterdam, and Diamond Princess. Click an image to view full.
Let's start with the Golden Princess. You can also see the Spirit of '98 in this picture.
Here's the Spirit of '98 up closer, with the Golden Princess towering in the background. The Spirit of '98 is just a small ship, carrying only about 100 passengers. 
The Statendam, you can see a couple of buses for size comparison.
The Oosterdam docked next to the Ketchikan Visitor Information center.
The Diamond Princess docked in Ketchikan.
I've noticed that the ships are on a fairly weekly schedule. As a result, I see the same ones over and over on the same days of the week. I'm not in town (walking distance, anyway) on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. So I'm missing many of the ships that are usually in on those days. For example, this Thursday there are 4 large ships in and one small one. I don't have pictures of any of those yet. Click an image to view full.
Anyway, here's the Volendam. It was in today and I hadn't taken a picture of it for my blog yet.
Here's the 4 ships that were in. Kinda hard to make them out through the trees. The Volendam (on the far end), Mercury, Star Princess, and Norwegian Sun.
One of the ships in today was the Millennium. Seeing as I didn't have a picture of it yet on my blog, here it is. I took the picture from the breakwater for the Thomas Basin boat harbor.
5 ships were in today; Dawn Princess, Mercury, Norwegian Sun, Star Princess, Zaandam. There's room at the docks for 4, so one (the Mercury) anchored out. When anchored out, they use the lifeboats to ferry tourists back and forth between the ship and town.
As always, I'll show the pictures of ones I don't have on my blog yet. Also as always, click an image to view full.
Norwegian Sun, notice the artwork of the sun on the bow.
Dawn Princess docked in Ketchikan, Alaska.
Mercury, anchored out. You can see a lifeboat in the water on the side of the ship.
4 ships in today. The Amsterdam and Infinity I already have pictures of in my blog. So here are pictures of the Island Princess and Radiance of the Seas. Click an image to view full.
Island Princess
Radiance of the Seas, as seen from the top of a flight of stairs.
I know, they all start to look alike after you see enough of them.
4 ships in today, and I haven't put pictures of any of them on my blog yet, so here they are. Click an image to view full.
Coral Princess tied to the dock.
Infinity at the dock.
Amsterdam at the dock.
Veendam, moving toward the docks.
My attempt to get all 4 ships in the same picture. Off in the distance in the left of the picture is the Amsterdam leaving, closer is the Infinity. You can see the bow of the Coral Princess still docked and the Veendam getting ready to dock in the right of the picture.
There were actually 5 ships in today; Norwegian Star, Star Princess (already have pictures of those two from earlier this year), Mercury, Spirit of Glacier Bay (small ship), and Zaandam.
Zaandam in Ketchikan.
By the time I was on the dock taking pictures, the Mercury and Spirit of Glacier Bay had already left. I already have posts about the Norwegian Star and Star Princess, so all you get is a picture of just the Zaandam today. Tomorrow you'll see what I was doing earlier in the day that caused me to miss taking pictures of the other two.
The Star Princess was in town today. I got a few pictures while it was still docked. As always, click an image to view it full sized.
It's tough to get the entire ship in frame.
This picture was taken from Married Man's Trail.
That's one of the Alaska state ferries, the Malaspina passing the Star Princess. Picture taken from the lobby of the Cape Fox Lodge and Restaurant.
I zoomed in on the ship from the 3rd Ave bypass. The camera has a 20x optical zoom, but I didn't quite need that much for this photo.
And I caught it leaving town...
The Norwegian Star came through town again today, and this time I took a picture. This picture was taken from my window, at about 3:30 PM today as the ship was leaving...
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