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3rd Stateroom Occupant - $1200.00

Destinations

Remark
7 nights from Prince Rupert to Juneau

Trip Commentary:
Prince Rupert to Juneau Trip; 8 Days/7 Nights Day 1 Make your way to Prince Rupert. Board after 16:00 for a relaxing and beautiful dinner cruise and overnight transit to the Queen Charlotte. Day 2 Warmup dives and drysuit familiarization and instruction at Langara Island followed by some great sealion and inverterbate dives as well as kayak lessons, a beach walk and the best salmon fishing on the coast! Day 3. Our adventure continues with a morning arrival at the Alaskan town of Ketchikan to clear Customs and stretch our legs. Later in the afternoon we will visit the small and extremely quaint Alaskan community of Meyers Chuck where the diving is very good and the shore visit equally interesting. Day 4 - 5 Wooden Island area. Excellent diving and kayaking. Great diving. Incredible scenery. Amazing beaches. Good potential for bear sightings and lots and lots of humpback whales. Visit to Baranoff Hotsprings and the sealions at Yasha Island. Day 6 Wake up among the icebergs, waterfalls and glaciers of spectacular Tracy Arm. Visiting Tracy Arm is an amazing experience and something that you will likely not forget for a long time. This evening we are planning on a hike up a salmon stream, snorkelling and free diving with the salmon and keeping our fingers crossed for a closeup visit with "brownies" (which is what Alaskans call grizzly bears). Day 7 Another hike up the salmon stream and, hopefully, grizzly bear sightings before sailing for our last dive of the trip on the wreck of the Princess Sophia. Arriving in Auke Bay (Juneau) after dinner. Day 8. Morning disembarkation for either a connecting flight home or a shoreside stay in Juneau (which is a neat and interesting place to spend an extra day or two). Shore options include a visit to the Mendenhall Glacier, taking the local tram up to the alpine meadows, a heliseeing flight or cultural First Nations presentation (and rafting trip?) by the local Tlingit. Please note that we operate with the philosophy that one of the best things about expedition yacht cruising is the flexibility to change itineraries 'mid-stream' and take advantage of changing conditions. The above itineraries are intended as an example only and our actual routing may be different. Notes on the activities. There are some excellent dives on the outer coast of Alaska as well as some very interesting wrecks in the Juneau area. We will likely do 12 - 14 'feature' dives during an 8 day / 7 night trip. However, please remember that these trips are the 'full meal deal' with lots of other activities including kayaking, fishing, birding and shorehikes as well as upclose viewing of icebergs, calving glaciers, spectacular scenery, black and grizzly bears, humpback whales, orcas, natural hot-springs, etc. Fishermen will have the opportunity to go fishing for salmon or halibut from our small 8 hp skiffs. Please note that these skiffs are intended for use in sheltered waters only and that we do not allow jigging for rockfish along reef structures. Kayakers will have lots of opportunities to go paddling in our Necky Santa Cruz kayaks with instruction available to less experienced paddlers. We hope that you will join us and promise you a wonderful experience that you will never forget! We welcome all feedback, comments and ideas.