Our scheduled arrival time was 7 AM. We must have arrived and anchored much earlier because when room service coffee arrived at around 6:15 AM, the ship was already still and at anchor.
I had a leisurely coffee viewing the city of Sitka.

We went down to Deck 2 for breakfast. We sat at a table with 4 other elderly ladies. It is remarkable how many of the passengers on board the ship are elderly. Many of them with handicaps that makes them barely ambulatory. One of the ladies same from Southern California. A second one came from Montana. Two of the ladies were from Denver. Interestingly one of the ladies from Denver had flown Cessna 150's. We got talking about flying and spin training of all things at 8:30 AM in the morning. I'd never have imagined meeting a 65 year old lady who flew Cessna 150's for breakfast while on a cruise. Interestingly she said she was afraid of heights but not while flying—same thing for me. What a small world.

We were booked on a shore excursion in a semi-sub to look at the wonders of the underwater world. This was a great disappointment. All we saw was Kelp, Kelp and more Kelp. Of course, the occasional start fish. I wasn't inclined to take any pictures but Sandhya wanted some for the record.

 
Sitka is a small, sleepy city. Looks like tourism is their mainstay. But ours was the only cruise ship anchored for the day and not many were out because of the cold and the rain. The city is clean and quaint. But otherwise not much to it.

 
Ended the day with a great dinner followed by a magic show by Las Vegas comedian/magician Jeff Peterson. Quite funny and some light magic. Nothing heavy duty.