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Activity level this cruise: High
Active Adventures Await Spend more time kayaking and exploring Glacier Bay The ultimate kayaking cruise

Active Adventures Await

Spend more time kayaking and exploring Glacier Bay

The ultimate kayaking cruise

650 EXPEDITION NOTES

Our ultimate backcountry kayak expedition

More time in Glacier Bay National Park than any other cruise line

One night at Glacier Bay Lodge included

Daily off-vessel activities

Overnight in Glacier Bay

Kayaking right from the ship

A perfect floating base camp for all your activities

All onboard meals included

 

t home what awakens you every morning? Surely not the calving of ice into the sea. Or was that a humpback whale breaching? Sleeping in the middle of glorious Glacier Bay is a luxury available with our cruise line. Glacier Bay National Park is the eighth wonder of the worldwe want to spend as much time here as possible.

Spend the bulk of your high adventure activity cruise exploring beautiful Glacier Bay under your own powerin a sea kayak. Each kayaking day begins with a bracing hot breakfast before you paddle off into the sunrise with your guide. Push bobbing ice away from your craft as you glide through the crystal waters searching for wildlife along the shore. Keep an eye out for brown bear or moose. Or, kayak to the glaciers and watch ice calve into the sea. Return to your vessel, the MV Wilderness Explorer, where a hot meal and good company await. As you slumber, your vessel whisks you away to another dramatic landscape where you wake up ready to take on a new kayaking adventure.

 

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Map of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve

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Paddle Glacier Bay
Glacier Bay Cruise - Plus Lodge
CRUISE 650

6 day - 5 night cruise plan, plus
one night at Glacier Bay Lodge.

Day 1INDEPENDENT ARRIVAL,
GLACIER BAY LODGE

This excursion is designed for the independent traveler.We can help make arrangements to bring you directly to the Glacier Bay Lodge, the starting point for your cruise. This evening enjoy dinner on your own, become acquainted with your surroundings, partake in an evening program presented by a Park Service Ranger, or simply relax in the rainforest setting. Overnight at the Lodge.

Day 2GLACIER BAY, BOARD VESSEL

This morning you are on your own to explore the environs of the Lodge beachcomb along Barlett Cove, take a bike r de or just relax with a book. Later today your adventure begins. Of the 350,000 visitors to Glacier Bay each year, most arrive by cruise ships. They all take the same route up the West Arm and then head back out the way they came. Most stand stories above the water to view the wildlife and ice floes. Your cruise adventure is entirely different. In fact, your cruise ship is nothing like a traditional cruise ship. It is a small ship that accommodates 32 passengers. Our nickname for MV Wilderness Explorer is floating base camp. It is your home base for your outdoor activities. This afternoon you board the ship, meet the Captain, crew and fellow travellers. Share a meal together before your first night of being gently rocked to sleep in your bunk. D

Day 3GLACIER BAY, SEA KAYAKING

Breakfast is an important meal with so much adventure ahead. Eat up and then head out again, today in search of wildlife. Do you want to see bears feeding along the shoreline? Get close to seals lying on ice flows? Hear whales singing? Watch a bald eagle grab a huge salmon from the water? Your kayak guide takes you in the best direction for prime wildlife viewing. Your day is full of wonders. Your guide makes sure you take it at your own pace so that you can enjoy every minute of your kayak adventure. Head back to dinner with non-stop tales of sightings. Nothing can disturb you in your sleep tonight! BLD

Day 4GLACIER BAY, SEA KAYAKING

Our Captain and crew are experts on secret out-of-the way places that offer the greatest likelihood for discovery and adventure. And you are now an expert kayaker. After breakfast you are off kayaking again. There is no set agenda or schedule. The rhythm of the sea and the solitude are beginning to seep into your bones. How are you ever going to return to civilization? Why would you ever want to return to civilization? Thank heavens, someone has once again packed the perfect lunch. What more could one ask for? BLD

Day 5GLACIER BAY SEA KAYAKING

Have you seen the ice calving into the water? What about a bald eagle diving for dinner? There is an everyday show in Glacier Bay waiting to be discovered. Keep your eyes open as you glide over the waters in your kayak. BLD

Day 6ICY STRAIT

Today is a new day. After breakfast you have the biggest decision of the week to make. Will you kayak in this pristine waterway full of tiny islets and isolated coves? Or, take the excursion craft to an uninhabited island for some backcountry exploration? Maybe you can do both. You are in Icy Strait, a prime spot of humpback whale watching. You can just as easily spend all day at the rail sighting these energetic mammals breaching, spouting, dipping and rolling. It is hard to take your eyes off the water with the promise that one of these gentle giants will leap again soon. The day draws to a close and so does your kayaking expedition. Tonight celebrate a wonderful time with your new-found friends. Toast the Captain at the Farewell Dinner. BLD

Day 7GLACIER BAY LODGE & RETURN HOME

This morning you enjoy your final lumberjack breakfast. Your active adventure cruise comes to an end at Glacier Bay Lodge. Disembark your vessel at the Lodge for your transfer to Gustavus Airport or the Ferry Dock. B

MV Wilderness Explorer

6 DAY / 5 NIGHT
Plus Lodge

 

May 31,
June 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30

July 5, 10, 17, 22, 27

Aug 1, 6, 11, 16, 21

A

$1,780

$1,830

$1,780

AA

$1,990

$2,090

$1,990

300

$2,290

$2,390

$2,290

Prices are U.S. dollars, per person, based on double occupancy of cabin category selected and include: services as outlined; all meals on board ship; port charges and taxes. Prices do not include: tips to ship or shore personnel, liquor, items of a personal nature or airfare. Disembarkation Transfers: A complimentary disembarkation transfer to the airport is provided on day of disembarkation only as part of the cruise price.

MEALS INCLUDED: B Breakfast L Lunch D Dinner R Reception S Snack

MV Wilderness Explorer
MV WILDERNESS EXPLORER

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