This is primarily a 44-day cruise that will take us from Hong Kong to Vancouver, BC. Along the way we will visit Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, South Korea, Japan, and Alaska before going down the Inner Passage on our way to Vancouver.
This is part of a series called Northern Pacific Wanderings 2024 All good things must come to an end, and yes, this trip did too. We arrived early in the morning after a voyage of 9,197 nautical miles, and the debarkation process began. While it was only 44 days earlier (only!), the time flew by…
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This is part of a series called Northern Pacific Wanderings 2024 We are now close to the end of our cruise. Today we pulled into Nanaimo, the so-called “Harbour City” almost directly across the Georgia Strait from Vancouver, our debarkation point. We once spent the night in Nanaimo on our boat as we were heading…
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This is part of a series called Northern Pacific Wanderings 2024 Today we participated in a historic first — the inauguration of a new cruise port. Located near the town of Klawock on the Pacific side of Prince of Wales Island, Port Klawok is joint venture between to Alaska native corporations and the Native village…
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This is part of a series called Northern Pacific Wanderings 2024 While it has a bit chilly and overcast since we have hit Alaska, we are also very fortunate to have come pre-season to these ports — there are no crowds! To hear our excursion director, a port like Sitka could have 3-4 ships in…
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This is part of a series called Northern Pacific Wanderings 2024 Today, we got to visit a National Park that can only be reached by ship, boat, or plane — Glacier Bay. This is a huge park — over 3.2 million acres of forest, inlet and shore, mountain peaks rising over 15,000 feet and, of…
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This is part of a series called Northern Pacific Wanderings 2024 Today we visited Homer, AK, a small city on the Kenai Peninsula, around 200 miles southwest of Anchorage. It was actually settled in 1896 by a gold mining company promoter, Homer Pennock, who built quarters for 50 men. The gold mining turned out to…
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This is part of a series called Northern Pacific Wanderings 2024 Today we visited Kodiak, AK, the second largest island in the US (second only to the Big Island of Hawaii). Of course, a large percentage of the island makes up the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge that is home to 3,500 Kodiak brown bears —…
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This is part of a series called Northern Pacific Wanderings 2024 It’s been seven days since we left Japan, traveling across the Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea, and today we arrived in Dutch Harbor. No, that’s not the name of the town that you may have learned watching “Deadliest Catch” — it’s actually Unalaska…
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This is part of a series called Northern Pacific Wanderings 2024 Today, we are in our final Japanese (and Asian) port — Kushiro which is a port city in eastern Hokkaido. This city has been an international trading port since early in the 20th century, as well as a reliable fishing port. Both of these…
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This is part of a series called Northern Pacific Wanderings 2024 Up to this point, our tour in Japan has taken place on the two largest islands that make up the country — Honshu and Kyushu. Today, we made the first of two port visits in Hokkaido, the northernmost island. And, as you might expect,…
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