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Honeymoon in Alaska?
Adventure and Romance from Sitka to Glacier Bay
Whales and Glaciers and Bears, Oh My!
A romantic getaway not soon to be forgotten...
With Alaska on the Home Shore, you'll truly have the adventure cruise of a lifetime.
You'll be up close and personal with gigantic glaciers, get caught up in daily whale watching with orca, gray whales and more.
You can tour abandoned gold mines, watch bear frolic along the shore, sea kayak in quiet or challenging waters,
catch a glimpse into the lives of puffin, sea lions, eagles, seals, otters, dall and harbor porpoises BUT
most of all - watch spectacular Alaskan sunsets and cuddle up during those quiet and romantic Northern evenings.
One of the Home Shore trips you can select, takes you up the incredible, remote ocean coast between Sitka and Lituya Bay,
to discover the geologic wonder featured in Philip Fradkin's book Wildest Alaska. This shoreline is a labyrinth of salt-water lakes, sea level sloughs, tidal passages, and barrier islands, with a backdrop of snow-topped mountains to the east and the mighty Pacific to the west.
The Home Shore's Captain, Jim Kyle, has been nativating Alaskan waterways for over forty years. Because of his intimate knowledge of
this rocky Northern shoreline, you will be able to exploring this intriguing wilderness by sea kayak. On many days of this trip, you will see no other boats.
But be sure to bring your cameras. You'll have plenty of non-human company with
gray whales, humpback whales, brown bear, eagles, sea otter, sealions, and many more magnificent birds and animals.
Added bonuses on this trip: soaking in Alaskan hotsprings and catching king salmon if you wish.
The Home Shore tours are customized for each group of guests.
View slide show here. See the highlights of S.E. Alaska on a voyage from Sitka to Tracy Arm via Icy Strait, returning via Frederick Sound. This 400-mile tour will find us underway through magnificent seascapes an average of six hours each day. Along the way we will kayak with humpback whales at Point Adolphus, soak in hotsprings, visit the village of Pelican, fish for king salmon, hike through ancient rainforests, and view brown bear. We will rest in the most picturesque anchorages imaginable. At Tracy Arm, an awe-inspiring fjord, you will kayak through ice flows and watch glaciers calve into the sea. Your tour is custom-planned, six guest maximum. Enjoy wonderful meals, your own stateroom with lounge, and the traditions of a classic vessel.
Home Shore is a commercial fishing vessel of carvel-planked wood construction, that produces a warm, quiet, and sea kindly ship. Built in LaConner, Washington, in 1944, she is 62 ft. long, 17 ft. wide, and 8 ft. deep. Cruising at 9 knots, she is at home on the open ocean and the Inside Passage.
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Why not India? A honeymoon is an excuse for a
good long trip, for one thing, and we were both
interested in Asia.
So it was during our first jet-lagged walk when a
man in a caftan emerged from the shadows of a
park called Connaught Circus and rushed up to us.
Whatever he held looked a bit like a hookah.
"Hello, kind sir!" he said. "Are you in good service?"
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It's natural to pause when first asked that common
question, but soon we were even more perplexed.
"Wash your ears?"
His was among a flood of offers that came within
minutes for Coke, shoeshines, back massages, tea
and marigolds.
Maybe we didn't want the ear-washing, but it was
clear from the start that while in India, we would
be in refreshingly new surroundings.
Seeking education and adventure, we chose three
weeks last autumn, when the heat was
manageable and the monsoons were clearing out.
During the trip, we were "in good service," as the
ear-washer had asked.
He meant "well-treated."
Not that travel in India comes without challenges.
In the huge cities, poverty, heat and pollution can
be overwhelming sometimes.
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Language, however, is no problem. For the British
Empire and now for India, English helps to unify a
nation where 18 languages are recognized by the
modern constitution.
We nosed around Old Delhi for a couple of days,
learning how to read menus, buy train tickets and
deal with the cycle-rickshaw drivers whose
pedaling became our favorite mode of
transportation. Although we felt uncomfortably
imperialist at first, we liked seeing the street life at
close range -- within smelling distance of the curry
stands.
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The drivers were friendly, too, and
appreciated our good tips. Along with many others,
they seemed truly delighted when we mentioned
this was our honeymoon.
So, we rode to the massive Red Fort, built by
Mogul king Shah Jahan in the mid-1600s. By the
early 1500s, the Mogul empire had already become
the strongest unifying force India had ever known.
The Moguls maintained power until European
colonizers effectively deposed them early in the
1700s.
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Within the red sandstone ramparts of the fort we
explored courtyards and rooms walled with
translucent marble screens, looking buttery as the
sunshine filtered in.
After a couple of days, we hopped onto an air-conditioned
train and arrived in Agra a few hours later.
Agra is best known for its monument to love. Shah
Jahan built the Taj Mahal here as a mausoleum for
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That night, a heavy full moon hung in a cloudless
sky, and my wife, Ann, and I had a drink alone on
the hotel's rooftop deck. As we took another look,
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WHEN TO GO
India is such a huge country that most things --
including religion, geography, language and climate
-- vary considerably from place to place. Generally,
the best time to visit is between October and
March, after the monsoon is over but before the
blazing heat begins. From April to September,
temperatures can be hot, but this is also climbing
season in the Himalayas. India's rainy season
usually starts in June and July, but travel during
these months is not impossible. Sometimes, the
rain is more sporadic than torrential.
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