In September, a 10-night Inside Passage cruise will cost from $4,895 to $6,595.
We have just returned from Alaska, where we spent a week on land and a week cruising the Inside Passage.
The Seattle-based Glacier Bay Cruiseline termed the six-night package of cruising, hiking and kayaking amid the fjords and mountain-rimmed bays of the Inside Passage a "soft" adventure -- which struck me as a slightly pudgy version of what I was looking for.
These interlocking channels constitute a portion of the Inside Passage from Washington state to Alaska.
It is also a gateway to the Inside Passage — the marvelous maze of glacier-carved fjords and forested islands that are a cruise lover's delight.
The Inside Passage – a thousand-mile-long crosshatch of channels and islands – home to native Americans, colonised by Europeans, fished to exhaustion and nowadays serving as the sublime backdrop to a booming cruise-ship trade – was on his doorstep.
Alaska cruise itineraries typically include the Inside Passage, a beautiful part of Alaska's landscape that stretches along the southeast coast of Alaska.
Whenever my wife, Lisa, and I were not congratulating ourselves for having chosen our little 84-passenger ship for a journey through Alaska's Inside Passage last August, somebody else was doing it for us: the crew, our fellow passengers, even local residents at the ports of call.
