Our day at Icy Strait Point from an Alaska Cruise - whales, eagles, food and fun!

[@melindajones9389]

To funny about the chili. LOL!

[@ACruisingGoodTime]

It's a favorite topic of mine! Thanks for watching!

[@briankuehn3420]

Great videos! Very informative and fun. My chili has beer, chocolate, bacon, but NO BEANS! I'm with you 100% on the beans thing.

[@ACruisingGoodTime]

Always great to meet a fellow chili lover! Thank you for your kind words and for watching! Happy cruising.

[@PatrickThreewit]

Hoonah was a native town then I was there. No roads. I remember we tied our boat at a float and them walked quite a ways on a dock that was a long way above the water. In Wrangell, all the roads were dirt and in Pelican there was one car, a Nash-Rambler than was driven on the boardwalk. There is a P.O. there now. I guess it would not be scary on a cruise ship. I was scared a few times like crossing the Gulf coming from Prince William Sound. I remember seeing an island one year near PWS and the next year it was gone, the year before being the big earthquake. I worked on a 44-foot fishing boat that I had named (breaking champagne bottle) in Friday Harbor, Washington when I was 12. One year I flew from Seattle to Juneau (No jets. Only propeller planes.) Then a scary pontoon ride to Pelican. I was about 22 then. When I was 9, my mother and I went from Ketchikan to Seattle on a steamship but it probably wasn't very luxurious. But we had flown north earlier on a Pan American plane to meet up with my dad, and the food was good. I still have a post card with the menu. Yes, Alaska is an interesting place. Rains a lot, though. I never got a lot of pictures with my Kodak Instamatic due to rainy weather over 8 summers. I was lucky and have lots of stories to tell, but living away from the ocean, people don't seem to be interested in such stories. I now live in what used to be logging country, although that, like the fishing industry in Puget Sound ,is pretty well gone. But you will still have some pretty good stories to tell on your cruise.

[@ACruisingGoodTime]

Thank you for sharing your experiences. The cruise industry has poured a lot of money in this port. I am sure all the tourism has made significant changes. I loved the whale watching in this port. Happy Cruising!

[@PatrickThreewit]

I was Icy Strait in the 60's on a 44-foot boat and standing on the bow, I could almost touch the whales as they moved along with us. And we stopped at an iceberg to get ice for our cooler. Things looked a lot different to a college kid then than they do now.

[@ACruisingGoodTime]

Thank you so very much for sharing your memories. Alaska is an amazing place.

[@PatrickThreewit]

@@ACruisingGoodTime I also lived for 25 years off and on since 1954 on San Juan Island in Puget Sound where now they give whale watching tours every day, but as a high-schooler, I got used to seeing whales. I miss Alaska and such places as Pelican, Elfin Cove, Hoonah, Warm Springs Bay, Sitka, Peril Strait, gold speckled in the walls of an assay office at the Hirst Chichagof mining village and I still have quite a bit of mining materials and papers showing where $30 million was dug out of the hills. But now I live in the western slopes of the Rocky Mountains in Idaho. No ocean but Idaho does have a seaport and I live 50 miles from the Snake River as it goes through Hells Canyon, the deepest canyon in NA, and I'm 6 miles from the Snake's biggest tributary so I get to see water whenever I go to town. No icebergs though. Not even snow on the ground yet.

[@benny.patsyevans122]

I'm from Tx also. Beans are just filler, not chili.

[@ACruisingGoodTime]

Thanks for watching!