Category: Alaska Cruises

It’s Day 2 of my first Princess cruise to Alaska, and my first job as ship naturalist. I was up early this morning as always, and the Horizon Court was the source of coffee to get it started and to greet the sun just after 05:00. As I start...

Last night was the roughest ride we’ve ever had at sea. I really love storms at sea – I find the whole experience to be very invigorating – but I know that many people are much less enthusiastic about it! Yesterday morning at 06:05 from the aft of Deck...

Yesterday was our ship’s day in Sitka, our favourite port. It was unfortunately a very short visit, from 7:00 am until 2:00 pm – we’d love to spend 12 hours there (or a week!). I awoke to fog and a light rain, with the Zaandam off to starboard. This...

It’s 05:00 and we’re sailing into Sitka harbor in a cold moderate rain. It was foggy a half-hour ago but that’s now clearing so we may yet get a decent day for our tour with Captain Davey. Regardless of weather, we have high hopes for sea otters and grey...

After a bit of rain and lot of cold wind at Skagway, the incredible weather is back with us. I’m still a day behind on the blog but hope to catch up tonight, as we’re now at sea en route to Sitka following a superb day at the Hubbard...

Yesterday we spent all day in Juneau, and today it was Skagway. Our weather so far has been good – very good until we reached Skagway and even today was far from being bad. Just south of Juneau (at 09:15) we spotted the first land wildlife of the cruise,...

Yesterday, our first port day, was wonderful. Ketchikan on a mostly-sunny day is so beautiful – and those sunny days are so unusual. By 05:30 when I arrived in the Oceanview Cafe on Deck 10 aft of the Celebrity Infinity, the cleaning crews were already hard at work. The...

I ran out of time to post this last night, so it’s now Wednesday, 15:00. It’s cloudy with a light misty rain and the sea is getting rougher. The Sapphire Princess has caught up with us and is now off our port side. We have another sea day, then...

In 33 hours, Cathy and I will be flying out of Whitehorse, headed for San Francisco to board the Celebrity Infinity for her repositioning cruise from Mexican itineraries to Alaskan ones. “This ain’t my first rodeo”, but I’m really excited about this cruise. As on all of our previous...