One of my favorite movies is Victor Victoria, there is nothing like a good musical, in my opinion the best song is this one, click here to view. A great tune, I have some old friends in the area and would love to visit, Chicago is a difficult city to fit with a cruise, until now that is, check out this smashing holiday, Chicago, Seattle and Alaska
Alaskan cruises are visually stunning as you might imagine, the towering snow caped Rockies, flat calm inland waters, frontier architecture, colourful locals and ancient temperate forests carpeting the landscape. Sheer cliffs of ice blue glaciers canyon through rock on its thousand year journey to the pacific ocean, all this you will see on an Alaskan cruise, but what might you see? Alaskan wildlife is abundant but elusive, if you are really lucky you will see a grizzly bear on shore as you glide by or you may glimpse a startled moose. You will probably see many Bald Eagles, once an endangered species, now after many years of protection are abundant. You may well witness one of these graceful birds glide down and scoop out a wild salmon. You have a great chance of seeing one of the cutest animals alive, a Sea Otter.
However the crowning glory for any expectant cruiser is surely to see a humpback whale. Your chances are good, better if you cruise earlier in the season , May and June is the time the humpbacks migrate north for the summer. You may even, while strolling out on the open deck enjoying the late evening light of the Alaskan summer, with a glass of wine, witness a humpback breach in the wake of the ship, a memory that will stay with you forever………I know, it happened to me.
