Arrival Whittier - disembarking
May 28, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ❄️ 2 °C
Cruise finished, new adventures await🙂🙂
First coffee🙂🙂
Cruise finished, new adventures await🙂🙂
First coffee🙂🙂
After a great night in the US Forest Service campground at Williwaw, Alaska, we are off to Whittier. This tiny town is at the opening of prince William Sound, and we plan on a 4 hour boat to seeRead more
Glacier tour to Surprise glacier which was calving. Too awesome for words. Sea lions, bald eagles, salmon hatching.
Disembarked at Whittier.
Town has a population of ~200 people during the winter and ~600 during the summer.
Cruise part of our adventure is over. Now we’re on our way to Denali.
Think Moose…
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Little fishing town in prince William Sound
The next morning, September 10 we boarded a train near the Denali Princess Lodge for the trip to Whittier, where we would meet our ship, the Coral Princess. It is amazing that we had already done soRead more
Whittier, AK was created by the US Army during WWII as a no-ice port and petroleum delivery center. To get to Whittier by car you must drive thru a one lane tunnel, carved through a mountain. TheRead more
I’d read that people come all the way down from Anchorage and pay the tunnel toll just to have the halibut fish & chips at the tiny Swiftwater Café overlooking the small boat harbor inRead more
The intrepid travelers arrived at Whittier, and immediately encountered some rather misty and rainy conditions. Fortunately, the cruise operation was set up to process people into the boat ratherRead more
You might also know this place by the following names:
Whittier, ويتير, ویتیر، آلاسکا, 휘티어, Уиттиер, व्हिटियर, Витир, Фурудгоҳи витир, Віттіер, 惠蒂尔
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