Category: Alaska Cruises

One of the questions that comes up fairly regularly on Alaska cruise Forums is whether or not the wonderful colours of Emerald Lake are visible early in the season. Often the answers given are wrong, so I’m posting these photographs as an answer, as I know that many members...

I’ve just posted a lengthy photojournal from one of my 6½ weeks on Alaska cruise ships in 2010, this one a 7-night northbound from Vancouver to Whittier on the Coral Princess. There are 146 photos of everything from various features of the ship to sights and activities in the...

“With New Year’s resolutions fresh in consumers’ minds, Princess Cruises fielded a poll to its Facebook fans to learn which destinations and travel experiences top their bucket lists in 2011. And respondents decisively answered that their number-one destination choice for the coming year is Alaska. One-fourth of respondents resolved...

Princess Cruises has just started a new blog called “50 Essential Experiences”, which over the next 50 weeks will describe what Princess’ destination experts feel are the things that you must experience during your life. This week’s Essential Experience story is about the helicopter dog sledding [archived by The...

I wish that I could take credit for these videos, because they’re extremely good. One of the fellows from our CruiseCritic group, though, Bill Raffel, created these 5 videos. Each is almost 10 minutes long – while that’s a lot of watching, just the Hubbard Glacier calving and the...

I’ve been back home from my last Alaska cruise for 10 days now, and reality has been keeping me very busy. Now that I have some time and am not paying 30 cents a minute for Interet access, though, I can show you a bit more of what the...

Some of you may be wondering why I’ve been so quiet lately. Well, I’m off on another Alaska cruise and there just haven’t been enough hours in the day to get everything done. A few family members want to see some photos, though, so here they come 🙂 This...

My 21-day adventure on the Coral Princess is over. I’ve now been home for 27 hours and the ship is already so far gone from my mind that it could have been months ago that I was on her. At some point I’ll write up a full review and...

I said on my talk from the bridge last night that I’d be on deck looking for whales at 04:00 this morning, and there were people there to talk to me – I love enthusiastic passengers! The first hour (around Hoonah) was slow, but there were several humpbacks at...

Even though I didn’t get to bed until well after midnight on Monday night, I was up at 04:30 this morning. My subconscious mind must have received a message about how beautiful the morning was. This photo was shot in Stephens Passage just north of the mouth of Tracy...