Alaska by Land, Sea and Air

 

Last year we were so enthralled by the Inside Passage of southeastern Alaska that we wanted to go back to see the “mainland part”.  Our group of 14 guests will spend 12 days on a trip that covers nearly 2,000 miles, sampling everything from Denali National Park to the Kenai Peninsula. 

We’ll be helicoptering into Denali and spending two nights deep in the back country of the park, currently inaccessible by road. We’ll be looking for grizzlies, wolves and caribou (and of course birds).  Then we drive through the Alaska Range and over Broad Pass to Anchorage, where we will hop onto the historic Alaska Railroad.  We’ll travel in a glass-domed train car over Moose Pass to Seward on the Kenai Peninsula, where we’ll travel by boat to a lodge on Fox Island for two nights.  Boat trips will take us to look for whales, otters and puffins in the Kenai Fjords, as well as glaciers.   Next we will spend two nights in a private lodge near Homer, going further out to sea to look for porpoises, whales, orcas and puffins, as well as hiking up to a glacier. Finally, we’ll travel to Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park (by float plane) for two days watching the brown bears hunt salmon on the Brooks River.  

Throughout the trip we’ll be hiking, kayaking, birding (of course) and immersing ourselves in a largely off-grid experience == so we’ll post updates when we can, but it may not be every day!