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 Galápagos Islands and Macchu Picchu 2022 Today is our last full day in the Galapagos, and we spent it on Santa Cruz Island, the second largest of the islands and the most populous (12,000 of the Galápagos Islands’ 20,000 people live there). It was a real culture shock…
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This is part of a series called Galápagos Islands and Macchu Picchu 2022 Today, we went to South Plaza, one of two islands that broke away from the large island of Santa Cruz. Both the islands were formed by geological uplift and tilt to the north, with cliffs on their southern coasts. We even…
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This is part of a series called Galápagos Islands and Macchu Picchu 2022 Today we were on the island of Isabela. It is the largest island in the Galapagos and the most recently active (the last eruption was in 2015). It’s actually shaped like a seahorse and is really the amalgamation of five coalesced volcanos. …
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This is part of a series called Galápagos Islands and Macchu Picchu 2022 Greetings from Floreana Island, a middle-aged island at just over 2 million years of age. This island was the first capital of the Galapagos. The reason we were there was to hike to a small brackish lagoon where we found over 100…
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This is part of a series called Galápagos Islands and Macchu Picchu 2022 Greetings from Española, the southernmost and one of the oldest of the Galápagos Islands. As appears to be the daily program, there are generally three activities during the day, in two different locations. Today we made two stops: Gardner Bay, a nearly…
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This is part of a series called Galápagos Islands and Macchu Picchu 2022 On our way to the Galapagos! We’ve wanted to do this trip for a number of reasons. Of course, to walk in the footsteps of Darwin and to appreciate the thought processes he had as he explored the islands and captured his…
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This is part of a series called Upper Midwest Tour 2021 After Mackinac, it was time to start the last leg of our trip — heading south along Lake Michigan to visit 2 national lakeshores and parks and visit with some friends. The terrain took a decided turn from the rocky shorelines we had experienced…
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This is part of a series called Upper Midwest Tour 2021 From Bond Falls, we drove to Munising, MI, the home of Pictured Rocks National Seashore. We were interested in comparing the stories of Munising and nearby Grand Marais (yeah, a second one!) and Pictured Rocks with Bayfield and the Apostle Islands. They both had…
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