EXPEDITION CRUISE TO ALASKA ON UNCRUISE’S WILDERNESS EXPLORER
WRITTEN BY Jackie Sheckler Finch
We seemed plunked down in a different world. It looked like something from the depths of history. Or maybe from planets beyond our orb. Great shards of ice glistened like diamonds in deep sapphire waters. Tidewater glaciers swept like rivers of ice down massive mountain valleys. Mountains, some as high as 15,000 feet, rose straight out of the ocean. Snow-draped peaks towered over sparkling fiords. “It feels like you are going back in time, back to the Ice Age,” said Ranger Fay as the Wilderness Explorer from UnCruise Adventures entered Alaska’s Glacier Bay on our seven-day cruise. “We are traveling on one of the most beautiful places in the world.” Accessible only by sea or air, Glacier Bay National Park is recognized as a biosphere reserve, as established in 1986 under the Man & Biosphere program of the International Coordinating Council. In 1992, the 3.3-million-acre park also became a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Alaska expedition: Paddle boarding was an option on our UnCruise Wilderness Explorer cruise, photo by Jackie Sheckler Finch. Aboard the 74-passenger Wilderness Explorer, we spent three days in Glacier Bay, not merely cruising past the astounding scenery but actually stopping to go ashore, paddle a kayak, enjoy paddle boarding, ride in a skiff or jump into a polar plunge. To see Glacier Bay is to enjoy nature in its primary stages.
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