Cruise Port Guide
The bucket-list things to do — and the private, expert-led way to do each.
Here’s the bucket list for your day ashore: the most extraordinary thing to do at each stop, and the private, small-group, or expert-led way to make it yours — your own pace, real access, none of the crowd.
Get within yards of North America's largest tidewater glacier aboard a private Zodiac skiff. Watch cathedral-sized seracs thunder into Disenchantment Bay in real time — a once-in-a-lifetime front-row seat to glacial power.
Paddle a sea kayak through Disenchantment Bay's iceberg-strewn waters with the Hubbard Glacier as your backdrop. This intimate, human-powered perspective on Alaska's most dramatic glacial bay is as bucket-list as it gets.
Board a small-group wildlife vessel and scan the shores of Yakutat Bay for brown bears foraging on glacial outwash plains, harbor seals hauled on ice, and sea otters rafting in the kelp. Alaska's wilderness, utterly undisturbed.
Soar over the vast Hubbard Glacier and the St. Elias icefields in a small charter plane — one of the largest non-polar icefields on Earth. The scale seen from the air is simply incomprehensible from the water below.
Yakutat is Alaska's legendary surf town — consistent, uncrowded waves breaking against a backdrop of glaciers and old-growth forest. Surf a genuine wilderness point break in one of the most spectacular settings on Earth.
Spend a privileged hour with Yakutat Tlingit elders and cultural practitioners — learning the stories, regalia, and living traditions of the people who have called this glacial bay home for millennia. Profoundly moving and utterly exclusive.
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