Those of you who live 50 or 60 degrees from the equator might not want to read this, but I live 36 degrees north and I thought it was interesting.

As we traveled up the Inside Passage we notice that sunset got later and later. We came out of the evening show one night at 10:00 p.m. and where was a beautiful sunset just getting started. By the time we reached Seward, about 60 degrees north of the equator, the nights were very short indeed, considering the long twilight.

The shortest night will be in late June when the sun will circle the sky dipping below the horizon only briefly, and north of the Arctic Circle, it won't even do that.

On earlier Alaskan trips, we went in September very close to the fall equinox, and we did not see those long days and short nights.

Toward the end of the cruise, we would have had to get up at 1:30 a.m. or so to see any real darkness. No wonder we were tired! We stayed up late and got up early.
Howard