Radiance of the Sea Northbound Review

Thank you for your pictures and your stories. Planning to take Radiance to Alaska in Aug 2017. Your blog was good prep.

I am thoroughly enjoying your review! We are about to go on this cruise in less than a week.

I'm wondering if you can tell me which nights the formal and semi-formal nights are on the ship? Thanks!

I am thoroughly enjoying your review! We are about to go on this cruise in less than a week.

 

I'm wondering if you can tell me which nights the formal and semi-formal nights are on the ship? Thanks!

The second night was formal and the last port I believe were was a formal night.

Sorry guys life got in the way of me blogging. The final port we went to was Skagway. The morning we docked along with four other ships and the port was filled with tourist. This is the one port I recommended booking an excursion in because in town it is nothing but gift shops. We did the dog sledding and viewing the sled puppies tour. Our tour left at 0800 and we met Jay dot our tour guide's nickname) at the end of the pier at 0745. We took a small 24 person bus to get to the sledding camp, the ride was about 20 minutes each way. Jay Dot was very nice, he told us all about dog sledding, how he ended up in Alaska, and how he ended up working with sled dogs. Once we got to the camp we than had to take an off road vehicle up to where the dogs and sleds were waiting. In the clearing there was 4 sleds each holds 6 people and each sled had 16 dogs attached to it. The noise was great but as soon as each sled took off the howls went silent. After the sled ride were allowed to go onto an observation deck and than we had a small lecture on the Iditarod. Than it was the time everyone was waiting for! Puppy time!!!!

Camp Location

The off roading vehicle

The dogs

Our sled guy stopped and got photos of each couple on the sled

Dogs continued

View from observation deck

Puppies 16 days old

6 weeks old

One of the buildings in town

Once again wonderful pictures. You have got everyone so excited about up and coming cruises. Thanks again, really enjoying your blog from Day one. Jean.

The second night was formal and the last port I believe were was a formal night.

Thank you!!

The last full day aboard the ship was a cruise day in which we visited Hubbard Glacier which is located in Disenchantment Bay. It was one of the most beautiful things I had ever see and I took over 300 photos of the area alone. There was not too much wildlife due to it being early in the season but we did see the fins of some dolphins when we first entered the bay. There was quite a lot of calving that occurred, I would say on average at least every 15-20 minutes. We spend most our time down on deck five since it was less crowded than the upper decks and we got just as good of a view. We would just cross through the interior of the ship to the other side once the view had slipped out of our view. We had left the face of Hubbard Glacier well before eleven am so make sure you get up early.

Entering the Bay

A smaller glacier in the area

Looks like you had a beautiful clear sunny day to view the glacier! Nice!!

Thanks again for the wonderful pictures! :)

I currently have a close up of it on my laptop screen saver, from the picture

I took four years ago. Makes me feel so nice and cool just looking at it while

we roast down here in Florida! :eek:

Also love pulling up the Juneau webcam daily too.

Five more weeks to go for me! :D

Thank you for the nice review & photos. Appreciate all the time & effort it takes to post a review like yours. We have enjoyed our times in Alaska as well. One of our best times in Alaska below.

Happy Travels, John

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Wander Black Bear at Taku Lodge

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Preparing our Salmon lunch

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Guess it was finally the Bear's turn...

Shhh...you are giving away the "secret ingredient" for their salmon bake!

They told us it was "bear slobber". :p :p

To Island Lady:

Sorry about the secret... Guess a picture is worth a thousands...

Happy Travels, John

To Island Lady:

 

Sorry about the secret... Guess a picture is worth a thousands...

Happy Travels, John

LOL!! Thanks! Happy travels to you as well.

Great pictures too, BTW! Thanks for sharing!

Looking forward to that Bear Slobber Salmon again in a few weeks. :D

Thank you for the nice review & photos. Appreciate all the time & effort it takes to post a review like yours. We have enjoyed our times in Alaska as well. One of our best times in Alaska below.

 

Happy Travels, John

 

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Wander Black Bear at Taku Lodge

 

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Preparing our Salmon lunch

 

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Guess it was finally the Bear's turn...

These photos are soo cute!

great review and thanks for the beautiful photos. such memories! can you tall us the camera you used.

Hi, will be headed for Alaska on a 9 day cruise on the Radiance in mid May, from Vancouver to Seward, an am gettin ansy!!! First time havin a balcony cabin!!!