We left Hope “early” Monday morning towards Portage through a toll tunnel to Whittier. The narrow tunnel was one-lane only including train tracks! One is able to drive through the…
Katmai National Park by Seaplane!
Last Monday was the day! A long awaited trip with a new type of transport to cross off our list: A floatplane! Today we had our own floatplane – (let’s…
Discovering Kodiak
Kodiak wasn’t very welcoming (yet). Overcast sky still hid the green beauty of the so called emerald island. After we arrived, we wanted to book a bear watching tour as…
Journey to Kodiak Island
After the boat tour we left Seward to get to Homer at the very west of the Kenai peninsula. From there we had a reservation for the ferry bringing us…
Seward Whalewatching
In Seward we booked a boat tour to see the neighbouring fjords of the Kenai Fjords National Park. It started rather early – but it was worth it! On the…
Whalewatching Juneau
We also figured out, that we had to do another whale watching tour in Juneau. The boat was rather small, the tour rather short and we haven’t seen as much…
Yukon Route & White Pass Railroad to Skagway, Alaska!
Today we left Whitehorse to get to Skagway, Alaska – by train! The scenic train route between Carcross and Skagway was reopened 1988 just for tourism. Originally, it was built…
Pacific Rim National Park
Although we were situated just next to Pacific Rim NP, we actually wanted to get to its northern coast at Ucluelet and Tofino. A really long fjord up until Port…
Vancouver Island: Southeast Coast to Victoria
We spent our first full day on Vancouver Island driving down the coast to Victoria. Our mission: Finding a pub by 11:00 with live TVs showing the soccer match Switzerland…