Wilderness Travel Cultural Cruise Collection for 2022-23

Alaska: Journey to Sitka ABOARD THE WESTWARD

Experience southeast Alaska’s glacial wilderness in cozy comfort aboard a historic 86-foot wooden vessel that hosts just eight guests. Each journey is flexible, depending on weather and wind conditions, but all bring you to an incredible array of coves, bays, intertidal zones, and remote villages between Sitka, Petersburg, and Juneau. Get ready to spend your days kayaking in protected coves, hiking in glacial landscapes, and encountering an amazing variety of wildlife. Private charters are also available.

DAYS 1-8 ON CRUISE Embark on the vessel and make your way to your first anchorage. Travel through canyons and fjords, stopping at beautiful anchorages on Admiralty, Baranof, and Kupreanof islands, observing bears, whales, eagles, and more along the way. As you hike or kayak, you’ll be accompanied by the on-board naturalist, who shares his or her knowledge about the

fauna and flora of the area. Each trip varies depending on the weather; some highlights may include watching brown bears feasting on returning salmon, soaking in hot springs, listening to whale song with the boat’s on-board hydrophone, and cruising close to the face of Dawes or LeConte Glacier, the southernmost calving tidewater glacier in the Northern Hemisphere. Disembark on Day 8.

AL ASKA

Glacier Bay N.P.

Juneau

Freshwater Bay

Tenakee Springs

ADMIRALTY ISLAND

Peril Strait

Dawes Glacier

Angoon

Sitka/Juneau Sitka/Petersburg

Thomas Bay

Sitka

Warm Springs

50 mi

Petersburg

BARANOF ISLAND

LeConte Bay

50 km

DATES Multiple departures Jun-Sep

TRIP COST From $6,350 Price is per person

Alaska’s Glacier Bay ABOARD THE CATALYST OR WESTWARD

Discover the secluded bays and inlets of Glacier Bay National park, stopping at beautiful anchorages for the night after a busy day observing wildlife and possibly a calving glacier or two. As you hike or kayak, accompanied by the on-board naturalist, you’ll watch for bears, sea otters, mountain goats, humpback whales, sea lions, puffins, and grey wolves! Each trip varies a bit depending on weather and other conditions.

DAYS 1-10 ON CRUISE Embark in Juneau. You’ll soon leave civilization behind, with glaciers, orcas, humpbacks, and rafts of seabirds awaiting your discovery in the days to come. Highlights of your journey include nature hikes, including a walk right to the face of the Reid Glacier and searching for remnants of a hundred-year-old mining claim, kayaking up streams and along

TRIP COST From $6,250 Price is per person and depends on cabin type meadows where you may see foraging bears, and visiting the Grand Pacific and Marjorie glaciers. This is a day of superlatives, with eagles resting on the icebergs, sounds of the creaking ice, and watching the glacier calve blocks of ice into the bay. And the wildlife is incredible—mountain goats, Steller sea lions, puffins, humpback whales, and more! Disembark in Juneau.

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Grand Pacific Glacier

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Margerie Glacier

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John Hopkins Inlet

Reid Inlet

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F a i r w e a t R a n g e

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Fingers Bay

Gl ac i er Bay Nat i ona l Par k B r a d y

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Bartlett Cove

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DATES Multiple departures May-Aug

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Gustavus

PACIFIC OCEAN

Dundas Bay

Icy Straight

Juneau

20 mi

20 km

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