THE GREAT ALAS KAN OUTDOORS
‘Goooooooood morning, Wilderness Explorer,’ expedition leader Sarah Bernstein’s cheerful voice boomed over our cabin intercom. ‘Take a peek outside at sunrise over Misty Fjords National Monument.’
The day before, five family members and I had embarked on UnCruise’s Alaska Fjords and Glaciers voyage through the Inside Passage, from Ketchikan. It’s a quaint town famous for salmon, totem poles and temperate forests that soak up some 4000 millimetres of rain each year. We weighed anchor under sunny skies as seaplanes buzzed overhead. Our first dinner was local halibut, then we stared in awe from deck as a humpback whale glided under a rising full moon.
After such an exciting start, I didn’t want to miss a thing. I jumped up and flung open our door to the starboard deck. Strange rock formations jutted from islands, at 57 metres long with a shallow draft, can go almost anywhere.
