Our last day in Alaska began in Wittier, a tiny little town sandwiched between the mountains and Prince William Sound. Wittier is so small that most of its population lives in one huge apartment building. Think about that. The whole Read More …
We disembarked the Island Princess at Wittier and boarded the bus that would take us to our final excursion on our Alaska adventure, a visit to Portage Glacier. Like the Mendenhall Glacier, Portage Glacier is inland, on the other side Read More …
College Fjord opens off Prince William Sound, which in turn opens off the Gulf of Alaska. Prince William Sound was named by British explorer Captain James Cook, in honour of Prince William Henry, one of George III’s sons. The largest Read More …
We sailed out of Glacier Bay in the late afternoon. Our next stop was College Fjord, but it is far to the north, beyond the Inside Passage. It took us that night and most of the next day to reach Read More …
We left Skagway about 8:30 in the evening and sailed down the Lynn Canal and into Icy Strait in the dark on our way to our next stop, Glacier Bay. These days, Glacier Bay isn’t a bay, but another fjord Read More …
The good weather we’d had for the first four days left us in Glacier Bay. That was a disappointment. For me Glacier Bay was the highlight of the cruise. The day dawned foggy and raining. We’d booked a place in Read More …
After a morning learning about the Klondike gold rush and the (mostly) men who slogged their way up the mountains to get there through White Pass, we were dropped on the main street of Skagway to wander. We started by Read More …
Highway 98 was opened 1978. It links Skagway and Whitehorse, in the Yukon, and follows the route used by the Klondike Gold Rush Stampeders through White Pass. The present day Canadian and US customs checkpoints are up on the White Read More …
Skagway Is a small town on a fjord called the Lynn Canal. In the winter it gets down to less than a thousand people. In the summer the population swells to 2,500 working in the town and, when there are Read More …
The Red Dog Saloon We had lunch at the Red Dog Saloon. When we were planning the cruise and deciding what excursions to do when we were in port, our focus in Juneau was the Mendenhall Glacier. We overheard a Read More …