Top 5 Shore Excursions You MUST Do on an Alaska Cruise 🐋❄️
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The creator presents five essential shore excursions for travelers visiting Alaska by cruise ship. The first recommendation is fishing in Ketchikan, where travelers can catch rockfish and salmon to cook over bonfires while observing bald eagles. The second experience involves whale watching in locations such as Sitka, Juneau, and Icy Strait Point, noting sightings of humpback whales performing bubble net feeding. Third, the creator highlights a helicopter excursion in Juneau that leads to a glacier for dog sledding with Iditarod sled dogs. The fourth activity focuses on glacier viewing, specifically mentioning the experience of hearing ice calving at Hubbard Glacier and tasting 400 year old glacier ice. Finally, the creator suggests a boat trip into Kenai Fjords National Park near Seward to observe wildlife including puffins, otters, and sea lions. The video concludes by asking viewers to select their preferred adventure from the list provided.
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It's wild, it's raw, and it's the closest you'll ever feel to nature this big.
We saw humpback breaching, tail slapping the water, and even the rare bubble net feeding where a whole group of whales surfaces at the same time.
Total bucket list moment.
It was one of the best days of the whole trip.
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