(Part 2)

We continue the Alaska Cruise and Land Tour taken by several Heritage Residents.
Part 1 was on the Heritage Web Site last month.

Several days after our start in Fairbanks we finally arrived in Seward, where we embarked on our ship, the Island Princess (named after the original “Love Boat” and even christened by Darren McGavin).

Our home away from home offered  .  .  .  .  .

Fine Cuisine	Formal Nights	Fabulous Views
Please click on any picture above to see some of the other choices.

Entertainment.

Gaming.

Surprise Parties.

The ship followed Alaska’s Inside Passage, a maritime maze of craggy fjords, forested islands and glaciers.

Glacier Bay is the largest national park in southeast Alaska, the world’s largest protected marine sanctuary and a World Heritage Site. It is 3.3 million acres, larger than the state of Connecticut. It is an icy wilderness made up of 12 tidewater glaciers, 30 alpine glaciers, and a dozen more unnamed glaciers. College Fjord, in Prince William Sound is ringed by 16 glaciers, each named after one of the colleges that sponsored early exploration of the fjord.

PORT OF CALL -- SKAGWAY, now a part of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park.

The early gold rush days of Alaska are preserved in Skagway. Skagway was once a lawless gateway for the thousands of hopeful gold ‘stampeders’.	Jefferson “Soapy” Smith became Skagway’s criminal king -- scamming stampeders and controlling gambling and prostitution until his demise in a duel.

The White Pass and Yukon Route Railroad was built in 1898 during the Klondike Gold Rush. This narrow gauge railroad connected Skagway and Canada’s Yukon. This route, and the Chilkoot Trail were used by the stampeders.

Today the railroad provides breathtaking panoramas of mountains, glaciers, gorges, waterfalls and historic sights.

PORT OF CALL -- JUNEAU

Juneau, the "Little San Francisco of the North”, is the only water locked state capital in the United States.

It is a picturesque gold rush town with victorian homes, situated at the foot of 3500 foot mountain slopes.

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Photos by Kay Huston, Demi & Paul Glennan and Carolyn Signorino Text and Design by Demi Glennan and Kay Huston.

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