ALASKA INSIDE PASSAGE
&
CANADIAN ROCKIES 2012

An alternative means of travel to CRUISE SHIPPING it up or down the INSIDE PASSAGE, combined with travel in the CANADIAN ROCKIES

Using Vancouver as a starting point, we used the GREYHOUND bus to take us to the Alaska Ferry Terminal at BELLINGHAM in Washington. Here we began our 'ALASKA FERRY ADVENTURES'
Glacier Bay Super Saver

This finished at JUNEAU. We then caught the Alaska ferry MATANUSKA back to Canada at PRINCE RUPERT BC. This is the only Canadian port of call in the Alaska ferry system.

From Prince Rupert we caught the inexpensive
VIA Canada Rail to JASPER AB
then did a circuit, Jasper - Banff - Adams Lake - Clearwater - Jasper, by HIRE CAR.
Then VIA Canada Rail back to Vancouver

Home

Vancouver

Whistler

MV Columbia to Skagway

Skagway

Haines

Glacier Bay

Juneau

MV Matanuska - Juneau to Prince Rupert BC

Prince Rupert

VIA Rail - Prince Rupert to Jasper

Jasper

Icefields Parkway

Banff

Wells Gray

Back to Vancouver

Mendenhall Glacier and Nugget Falls

A closer up view. We walked about 8.15am and saw no one, until almost back

Steep Creek flowing into the lake

The Sockeye salmon were spawning

Floatplanes at downtown Juneau. These were bigger than others we saw such as at Ketchikan

Buildings on piles downtown Juneau

Juneau is a popular port of call for cruise ships. I thought the SILVER SHADOW looked enormous. Its only little compared to the one in front - as I discovered from the Mt Roberts tramway looking down

Hawkers peddling their tours to people from the cruise ships

Looking down from Mt Roberts. The SILVER SHADOW is the little cruise ship

Downtown Juneau in the foreground with Mendenhall Valley (where the glacier is) at the upper right

SAN HUAN is a real fishing boat unloading salmon here

The salmon unloaded from SAN HUAN going up the conveyor to be processed. This is right next to the cruise ship terminal