davidson glacier
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davidson glacier印象
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What an experience! From beginning to end. We took a boat with a naturalist thru a fjord, a bus thru rain forests to a base camp where we got rubber boots and a life jacket. Then we paddled a canoe up to the Davidson Glacier. The scenery was beautiful!! After returning our canoe equipment we ate a picnic lunch. Back on the boat for the return trip we saw seals and bald eagles. All the guides/naturalists were very knowledgable and loved Alaska!
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We went by canoe and walked the base of the Davidson Glacier. After having visited Iceland in the winter and spending hours hiking on glaciers and ice climbing, I must say this glacier was beautiful. Well worth visiting if you get the chance.
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We booked this excursion last minute on our cruise and boy are we glad we did. On the ferry, Wyatt was incredibly informed, funny, personable and able to communicate everything that we were seeing. They stopped to show us Harbor Seals on the waters edge and explained all the natural history that we were seeing. We then got off the ferry and our adventure began. A bus ride, driven by a very funny Nate, up to an opening that housed Boots, Waders, and Raincoats. We dressed and then followed Constance through the woods to an opening with Canoes. Constance was AMAZING. Her knowledge, love and passion for Alaska was incredibly conveyed. She made, what was already, a great experience, even better.
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The entire Glacier Point to the canoes to the Glacier experience was top notch. Easily the most diversified excursion we have experienced. The ability to get not only up close but actually walk on the Glacier is great. This is an awesome tour if photography is your thing. The staff was very knowledgeable and had lots of personality.
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Each glacier has it's own beauty & history. So much to see & experience!. We want to go back to Alaska!.
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The guides really made this excursion great. The fellow on the high-speed boat was so enthusiastic about everything, one couldn't help get excited. You could tell he truly loves the land and people. He even taught us some Tlingit vocabulary on the trip back. It started with the boat trip through the fjord which took about an hour. The trip was exciting because the boat went so fast and was crashing down over the swells in the surf. We saw eagles and harbor seals on the rocks. The boat was slowed to watch the seals for a while. Once we reached the beach, we were given a lunch of turkey sandwiches, trail mix, apple sauce, and water. It was kind of windy and cold so they suggested we take the food and eat on the bus rather than at the picnic tables. Everyone was fine with that so we boarded a bus and trundled through the forest to the camp to suit-up. The guides on the bus were funny and informative, telling about their life there (completely off the grid from May to September!), local wildlife, etc. When we got to the area to suit up, they gave us each, dry suits, pfds, and boots to put on and then we hiked about 1/4 mile down to the canoes. The hike was pretty easy with a good path though it was a little awkward in the bulky suits. At the canoes, we were given further instructions and boarded. Joe was our guide in the canoe and he was great. We paddled a little bit but then he kicked on the engine so we didn't have to. We went across the lake created by the Davidson glacier and then landed on the sand bar around the glacier and walked up to it. It was beautiful! There was a large ice cave and the colors were unbelievable. We spent a good deal of time walking around and looking at the glacier and tasting the water. Then got back in the canoes and returned to camp then the boat ride back. It was one of our favorite excursions on our cruise (and we did a LOT of excursions). The whole trip was about 6 hours in total.
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Thanks, Sam Edwards! You brought Alaska alive for us!If you get a chance to go out to Glacier Point to experience the Davidson Glacier, don't pass it up! Bree, our naturalist, gave an informative and interesting narrated talk during a one hour ride on a fast, enclosed, boat to Glacier Point. We were met by a group of nine guides who spend five months on Glacier Point. No running water, minimal electricity powered by a generator, individual huts to sleep in...and these kids LOVE it! After a short ride across the point we arrived at the gathering area where we were encouraged to use the outhouses before putting on personal floatation devices (life jackets), extra coats for warmth, and mud-mucker boots. You leave your own shoes behind so take extra socks for warmth and layers as you will be walking through glacial streams! It is at least 10 degrees colder at the glacier and you actually walk ON it. Directions are given for the day, then a ten-minute walk to the lake front where more instructions are given about how NOT to fall out of the canoes. Then, 15 to 16 passengers board the large canoes with a guide to paddle out on to the lake and to the glacier. After about a half hour (don't worry--the guides have small engines on the canoes so you don't have to paddle the entire time!) you disembark at the glacier. It is an amazing experience to walk along the ice melt, examine the blue to black ice...an then...we saw the ice cave! Behind the glacier, carved out by melting water, the bluest, purest cave of ice beneath this massive glaciers was breath-taking! This was the highlight of our week in Alaska...and our guide, Sam Edwards, made every step educational, entertaining, and amazing!
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It was the last Princess cruise heading south & we opted for this excursion rather than the railway one. It was typical weather - raining & fog on & off, so neither were promising. Staff were fantastic all around. Guides were knowledgeable and helpful. Took the boat ride from the ship to the bus, thru the rainforest to the depot where we were totally outfitted with rain gear. It was cold & very wet. After a short hike we were at the waters edge & loaded 8-10 person into canoes. Started off paddling, but after 10 strokes or so, the motor went on. Kinda disappointing & then we just floated around Davidson glacier. We did NOT disembark or get 'up close or personal with this glacier' . We certainly saw it & heard about it, but from the description and write up, I fully expected to hike around a bit. After motoring back to the canoe stop & hiking back to 'camp' we had a light sandwich lunch & re boarded the bus to return to the ship. Saw no exceptional wild life or scenery. Partly this was weather related, but also, a very easy & pampered trip...a typical 'tourist attraction'
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My daughter and I particpated in this excursion during 2013, we were very impressed. I was able to experience it again with my son and his wife. It was everything I remember and I was very excited that they got to share in the beauty of it all. The staff are wonderful... Emily and Jim on the boat, Nate and the crew on site. They are all knowledgable and helpful and patient. I defer to this trip because it offers a little bit of everything.. Time on the Lynn canal, travel through the Alaskan meadows and woods, canoe and glacier experience. We will be back again in 2016 with more family! Well done and thank you!
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This is a well run tour. The logistics to get to the glacier from Skagway are enormous. The guides are very good and helpful. There are better glacier tours on different glaciers in Alaska but from Skagway this is good.