Alaska Marine Highway
We are hoping to take the once in a life time trip to Alaska via the Marine Highway system. Given that we have always just driven from place to place, California to Alaska, all thru Mexico and then d...
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EEWally wrote:Agree completely! We did Sitka on an overnight from Skagway, with a midnight ferry stop in Juneau. We got a cabin for the night, but spent the daylight hours awake and glued to the views of Peril Strait, a route that cruise ships cannot traverse. So, we were seeing parts of Alaska that cruise ship passengers never glimpse and it is spectacular. Just imagine a 408-foot ferry fishtailing around curves in the strait!
The best piece of advice that we ever had on this forum was to get more time in Sitka. We would have liked more time than our 4 nights there.
Then the views in Sitka of the volcano, the sunsets, and bald eagles so numerous, they are like pigeons in a city park. Whale-watching, salmon fishing, bears on the beaches visible from cruise boats, dense groves of Sitka spruce--Sitka just can't be beat. So, try to spend as much time as possible in our favorite town in all of Alaska (and I have been in pretty much all of Alaska--Chicken to Shemya Island, Hyder to Nome and Kotzebue--except the North Slope).
