But it was an adventure nevertheless!
It was cool to see some of the places we had visited in sea kayaks and on river trips from a different perspective (namely from the top deck of a huge ship), the Zandamm. We cruised to Juneau, Skagway, Tracey Arm and Ketchikan. I was amazed by the number of whales everywhere in the open waters. After leaving Ketchikan I counted over 80 of them in an hour. The highlight was watching bubble-net feeding Humpback whales near Juneau and the trip into the narrow fjord Tracey Arm. We also retraced the route or the gold prospectors across White Pass 1896–1899 (an alternative route to the Chilkoot Pass), where the tree line is at 800 meters. We drove on to the small town of Carcross (short for caribou crossing), Yukon and played on the sand dunes there, not exactly what you would expect on an Alaska Cruise. Turns out the real challenge of the cruise was not too eat too much of the delicious food!
