Tag: Inside Passage
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Final Day on the Water
This is the eighth, and final, post of the “Week-Long Alaskan Dream” series. Our last full day on the Misty Fjord dawned with heavy mist hanging on the mountain tops, turning the greens and browns of the lower elevations to multiple shades of gray. A hearty breakfast warmed us, as we clustered once again in…
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The Wonder of Whales
This is the sixth of the “Week-Long Alaskan Dream” post series. While COVID-19 has thrown 2020 a curve ball, and continues to disrupt in ways that are so difficult for so many, it seemed superficial to pick up where I left off to finish this blog series from our Alaska trip a year (seems like…
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The Sea Lion Posse of Frederick Sound
This is the fourth of the “Week-Long Alaskan Dream” post series. The Misty Fjord left Baranof Springs in the morning to head into Frederick Sound for Day 3 of our Inside Passage cruise. Whales teased us with a water spout here and there in the morning, while we watched the isolated sea otter (or two…
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Destination Baranof Warm Springs
This is the third of the “Week-Long Alaskan Dream” post series. Blue skies as far as the eye could see, with wispy clouds of white fanning out like the tentacles of the octopus (which was a common motif in the Sitka area). The Misty Fjord untied from the mooring buoy and began Day 2 of…
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Leaving Sitka on the Misty Fjord
This is the second of the “Week-Long Alaskan Dream” post series. “It looked bigger on the website,” I laughed as we unloaded from the Alaskan Dream Cruises courtesy van and walked down the ramp to where Ben, one of the Misty Fjord’s crew, was waiting to greet us. No gangway or long check-in lines; instead…
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