Why an Alaska Day Cruise is a Great Vacation Option
I’ve traveled to Alaska many times and enjoyed different cruises there often. This is largely because so much of Alaska's impressive scenery can be viewed from the water. Some of the most appealing cruises take a day and these generally run daily from May to September from Alaska’s coastal towns. They are guided by well informed locals and compact in length. All you need to do is book early, arrive on time and sit back and enjoy unique viewings only available from a boat!
An Alaska day cruise whale watching around Resurrection Bay and further off the coast of Seward is likely to provide close up views of wildlife and sea creatures for most of the day. Cruise goers are often treated to sights of orca (killer whales), humpback whales or grey whales and even to sightings of Stella sea lions, bird rookeries, puffins, eagles, and even porpoise and sea otters. Puffins are amazing creatures only venturing on to land to nest. They can dive underwater for up to one minute and this is a sight worth seeing!
An Alaska day cruise from the town of Valdez through the edge of Prince William Sound can see you exploring the spectacle of the Columbia Glacier. This is Alaska's largest tidewater glacier and is well worth visiting. Columbia and the nearby Mears Glacier both feature active calving along their faces. As a result a large number of floating ice bergs move in and around nearby waters across the warmer months of each year. Regardless of the time of the year, always take warm clothes on this day cruise as glaciers have a substantial impact on the surrounding air temperature.
Alaskan wild life features in these glacier day cruises as this is the habitat of whales, sea lions, puffins, seals, sea otters, eagles, goats, bears and other land and sea creatures. As Valdez endured the Alaskan earthquake of ’64 and the ’89 oil spill a 6.5 hour day cruise in the pristine waters surrounding this interesting town always include historical information around these events.
Further south, consider taking an Alaska day cruise from Juneau to the spectacular fjord Tracy Arm and Sawyer Glacier there. Be prepared for a long day (8.5 hours) as traveling to the Taku inlet from Juneau takes a while. It is well worth traveling the distance and this part of the journey is made interesting as it follows the migrating pathway of whales along Alaska’s coastline. Viewing these creatures breaching and tail waving is common.
The rest of the trip is breathtaking as well. Waterfalls, bears, mountain goats, seals, sharp glacier-ravaged cliffs, deep teal colored waters and the striking contrast of white ice flows and then the calving glacier – up close and very real, stimulate all the senses in this very unique experience. There is nothing quite like a day cruise to Tracy Arm!
An Alaska day cruise is often an experience not able to be replicated on large cruise liners because if the navigation maneuverability of smaller cruise vessels. So consider one or even each of these Alaska day cruises when you visit. You will remember them as highlights of your vacation. For more information about Alaskan cruising go to my website http://www.alaskacruisetravel4u.com/
Warm regards Rowena French
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Rowena French has enjoyed a life-time love affair with Alaska, returning often, ‘just once more’, to experience another aspect of this spectacular part of the world.
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