Yakutat City and Borough, United States Travel Journals & Blogs

Osi Inglin Alaska & Kanada
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- Jul 14, 2019, 10:37pm
- ⛅ 14 °C
- Altitude: Sea level
- Gulf of Alaska 59.539944, -139.976759°32’24” N 139°58’36” W
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Royal Princess
July 14, 2019 ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
3’828 Passagiere aus 34 Nationen befinden sich auf der Royal Princess. Die meisten davon sind aus den USA (3‘251), dann folgt Kanada (255), China (65), Grossbritannien (44), Mexiko (40) und Australien (34). Schweiz: 6.

Das Schiff legt heute an der Yakutat Bay eine fünfstündige Pause ein, damit man ein Auge voll vom Hubbard-Gletscher, der sich hinten in der Bay befindet, nehmen kann. Für ziemlich viel Geld kann man auch einen Bootsausflug an den Gletscher machen. Wir bleiben an Bord, da wir unser alaskisches Gletschererlebnis bereits auf unserem Ausflug in den Kenai Fjords National Park gehabt haben.

Programm heute: Fitness (Bea und Osi), Line Dance (Bea), Lesen (Bea und Osi), Fotos machen (Osi), Essen (Bea und Osi).

Die Fotos unten zeigen den obersten Teil des Schiffes mit den Pools, Jacuzzis, Spielfeldern und einer der beiden Glasboden-Passagen, die links und rechts über das Schiff hinausragen.Read more
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Traveler Canada & Alaska Summer 2019
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- Aug 4, 2019, 4:58pm
- ⛅ 9 °C
- Altitude: Sea level
- United States Alaska Yakutat City and Borough New Reef 59.98213, -139.5634459°58’56” N 139°33’48” W
Day 20
Yakutat Bay and the Hubbard Glacier
August 4, 2019 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C
Bit of a lazy day today. Up late; having now moved to an inside cabin and therefore having no window means the endless Alaskan summer days didn't keep us awake. After spending the morning bumbling about the ship, we saw an excellent author speak about subsistence living in Alaska before going out on deck to see the Hubbard glacier, the biggest tide water glacier in Northern America at 6.5 miles wide and 350ft high at the snout. We watched numerous calvings before changing from warm layers to black tie for the formal evening.Read more
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Traveler Eric's Walk About
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- Aug 1, 2023, 6:36pm
- ⛅ 10 °C
- Altitude: Sea level
- United States Alaska Yakutat City and Borough New Reef 59.99262, -139.56513259°59’33” N 139°33’54” W
Day 52
Hubbard Glacier
August 1, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C
35 stores high from the water line and 7 miles wide.
To give an idea how big the glacier is, the ship in the picture I think has 1,000 passengers.
There are moments on this cruise where it feels like there no other passengers on the ship.Read more
Traveler Without the ship for context, I would have no way to appreciate the size of the glacier. Where are the other passengers? Gambling? Drinking? Sleeping? Feeding?
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Traveler Alaska 2018
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- Jul 29, 2018
- ⛅ 14 °C
- Altitude: Sea level
- United States Alaska Yakutat City and Borough Disenchantment Bay 59.975283, -139.56759°58’31” N 139°34’1” W
Day 11
Hubbard Gletscher
July 29, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
Heute zum Hubbard Gletscher, über 100Km lang, der grösste Gletscher in NA, der ins Wasser kalbt und einer der wenigen, der noch wächst.
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North to Alaska By RV 2021
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- Jun 27, 2021, 1:00pm
- ⛅ 32 °F
- Altitude: 17,769 ft
- United States Alaska Yakutat City and Borough Mount Saint Elias 60.29348, -140.93261760°17’37” N 140°55’57” W
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Day 56
Jewels of the Wrangells
June 27, 2021 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 32 °F
When you want to see a place that is 13.2 million acres in size — bigger than Switzerland ... six times the size of Yellowstone National Park — you have to think outside the box. Especially if there are no roads you can drive around ... just wilderness in every direction.

Thus, we decided to see Wrangell-St Elias National Park and Preserve from the air. A great decision as it turns out. Our flightseeing with Wrangell Mountain Air definitely falls into the category of “amazing ... spectacular ... beyond breathtaking.” This park just begs to be seen from the air.

WMA offers flight options ranging from 50 minutes to 120 minutes. We chose the latter and booked it with a discount thanks to an Alaska TourSaver coupon. This option took us all the way south to see St Elias and Mount Logan, as well as University Peak and Mount Churchill. We flew over amazing rivers of ice and the Bagley Icefield, which is the second largest non-polar icefield in North America ... over 125 miles long, 6 miles wide, and 3,000 feet thick. It was incredible.

Words cannot describe our experience and what our eyes beheld. All I can say is that it was worth every single penny, and I would do it again in a heartbeat.

(There’s no way I can pick just a few photos out of the many I took during the flight. So, the ones here are just random selections.)Read more
Traveler probably my favorite thus far. better than Denali. so glad you were able to do this. if we get back to Alaska this is something I want to see again in depth, the way you have, not from a distance as we did.
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Two to Travel Denali is great ... but WRST is incredible.
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Traveler Chunks of candy in a bowl of melting ice cream.
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Two to Travel I never thought of it that way.
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Alaska 1
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- Sep 11, 2012
- 🌧 50 °F
- Altitude: 400 ft
- United States Alaska Yakutat City and Borough Haenke Island 59.969286, -139.53920759°58’9” N 139°32’21” W
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First Glaciers
September 11, 2012 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 50 °F
Upon arriving at the ship, we went through the safety drill, then went to dinner. We found our dinner companions to be very interesting people, including two homosexual Roman Catholic priests. I rose early, about 5:00 am on September 11 to learn my way around the ship. Very few passengers were awake to see the glorious sunrise I photographed. I attended a photography class. We saw the Hubbard and Reid glaciers.Read more
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Alaska 2
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- Jun 8, 2014, 7:56am
- ⛅ 48 °F
- Altitude: Sea level
- United States Alaska Yakutat City and Borough Disenchantment Bay 59.964232, -139.56577759°57’51” N 139°33’57” W
Day 9
Hubbard Glacier
June 8, 2014 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 48 °F
We had breakfast in the Provence Dining Room on deck 7 with assorted messmates from India, Galveston, Florida, and Las Vegas. Then we walked about 2 miles on the promenade deck. Came back to room and Glenda took a nap. We ate lunch by ourselves; I had split pea soup and bread. Glenda had soup and salad.

I decided to miss the wine tasting so that we might go out on deck to photograph the Hubbard Glacier in Yakutat Bay. Clouds partially obscured it, so my pictures were not quite as good as last time. The naturalist onboard has not been nearly as active in informing passengers about the glaciers as was her predecessor, Kathy Slamp. I was pleased to hear the captain speak over the public address system about an unusually high incidence of influenza on this ship last week. He stressed the need for frequent, thorough handwashing, and the need to cover one's cough. Had the captain of the Ruby Princess been as diligent, I might have been spared that case of pneumonia in November.

Tonight supper was a formal night. Mike arranged for the Wrinkles, Friedmans and Cooks to sit at the same table. What a feast! Mike began by bringing a bottle of Champagne. I ordered medallions of lamb and a bottle of Gamay Beaujolais. As I expected, it was fruity and full. The conversation was lively, and David ended the evening with a hilarious joke about a Russian wrestler.Read more
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Traveler Alaska
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- Jun 21, 2023, 8:41am
- ☁️ 45 °F
- Altitude: Sea level
- United States Alaska Yakutat City and Borough Disenchantment Bay 59.960178, -139.57153359°57’37” N 139°34’18” W
Day 9
Silver Muse Day 9 - Hubbard Glacier
June 21, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 45 °F
Today was a special day. Not only were we sailing to the Hubbard Glacier but it was Jim’s birthday! Our butler surprised us with balloons and a special bottle of champagne but he was outdone by a gift Jim got from Kevin, Cody and Kaeli; a fabulous bottle of wine and an all expenses paid trip to San Diego to see the World Lacrosse Championship! You would think the day couldn’t get better but then we cruised to and around the Hubbard Glacier. This was the definitely the coldest day of the trip (the icy glacier might have had something to do with the temperature 🤪) and there was quite a bit of fog but just as we got close the fog started to lift we got some great pictures. Each cruise ship only spends about 30 minutes at the glacier and then we departed for our last port of Seward.Read more
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Glaciers & Geishas
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- Sep 22, 2023, 8:18am
- ⛅ 39 °F
- Altitude: Sea level
- United States Alaska Yakutat City and Borough Bancas Point 59.930702, -139.62625159°55’51” N 139°37’35” W
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Day 7
Hubbard & Logan
September 22, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 39 °F
The Hubbard glacier is another one of those spectacular geological formations in Alaska that beggars language. Superlatives creak and groan under the weight of unfathomable age, size and beauty. Just now I saw ice made of snowflakes that fell when Moses was arguing with Pharaoh in Egypt. While we were watching, chunks of ice the size of skyscrapers ripped themselves from the side of the glacier, roared like thunder and crashed into the ocean, making a tsunami that could capsize our ship, were we closer. Six miles across, the part of this behemoth we can see from our ship is larger than the City of New York. And it extends back into the mountains for 76 miles. Unless it is calving, this glacier is silent. It sits enthroned in frozen grandeur, as it has done for millennia. It is massive. It is powerful. It is dangerous. It is wonderful.

Beyond the glacier we see its parent, Mount Logan, whose snows gave birth to the monster. Fifty-four miles away, it looks close enough to touch. Yeah, I know—it’s only the second highest mountain in North America behind Denali. Denali’s crest is roughly 800 feet farther from the earth’s center than Logan’s. But Denali’s crest at 20,310 feet is only a few thousand feet above the average surrounding terrain. When you stand at its base (we were actually in an airplane) it doesn’t look all that high. On the other hand, you can see Logan’s base at sea level from where the mountain shoots straight up from the roots of the earth nearly four miles into the sky. It is breathtaking. Logan is the mountain you saw in storybooks as a child. Logan is the mountain you see in both your dreams and your nightmares. Mt. Logan is the iconic mountain.Read more
Traveler Wonderful!!!
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Traveler Amazing pictures!!
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Traveler The Neighborhood is full of contrasts! Love the light and textures. Look at that cloud over valley of glacier.
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Traveler Gorgeous as usual!
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Alaskan Cruise-end in Seatttle
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- Apr 29, 2024, 7:23am
- ⛅ 36 °F
- Altitude: Sea level
- United States Alaska Yakutat City and Borough Aquadulce Creek 59.924325, -139.6020259°55’28” N 139°36’7” W
Day 7
Hubbard Glacier
April 29 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 36 °F
Hubbard Glacier
We were scheduled to stay all afternoon but the glacier was calving and icebergs were heading our way. Left for safety reasons-per captains orders!
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