
After Seward we stopped in Kodiak for the better part of the day but I did not do much, preferring to simply walk into town and wander around before walking back to the ship. My friends had chartered a seaplane to take them flying over the interior of the island in search of bears and other wildlife so they were off on that adventure for most of the day. They came back… Read More
After leaving Sitka we spent two days sailing on our way to our next stop, Valdez. The weather was a bit cloudy and rainy, which was unfortunate as one of the sailing days was into Glacier Bay to view the spectacular glacier at the north end. I had been to this area before, about ten years ago when I took my mother on an Alaskan cruise, and I was interested in seeing… Read More
The next stop on our trip was Sitka, a small town of about 9000 people. We found out later that the addition of our ship’s visitors and those of the two other (larger) cruise ships docked basically doubled the size of the town for the afternoon. Yikes! Unfortunately, but not unsurprisingly, the weather was cloudy and the rain was on-again, off-again. It was noticeably colder than Ketchikan, with the combination of cold… Read More
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