Day 10 – Today we’ve travelled to the Denali Lodge and gone on a tour 20 miles or so into the National Park. We managed to get a sight of Mount McKinley or as the natives call it, Denali – The Great One. It’s the highest mountain in North America and apparently the largest in [...]

Day 9 update: Last night around 10 pm, our ranger told us that the northern lights were out. We went to look outside, couldn’t see much to start with but about an hour later we had a magnificant display of colour. There was no cloud in the sky and the view was breathtaking. We stayed [...]

Day 9 – Today we are at the Lodge. Weather wasn’t great yesterday but much clearer today. That said we still can’t see the top of Mount McKinley/Denali which is 40 miles away. In a couple of hours we are going to an Iditarod dog sled camp – Kathryn is desperate to see some Husky [...]

Day 8 – Today we left our ship behind and boarded the train for our long journey to Mount McKinley. The train took almost 6 hours and we had some fantastic views along the way. We eventually arrived at the lodge early this afternoon and although we have been having some rain, we had a [...]

Day 6 – Glacier Bay – Yesterday we went here, its basically an inlet with a number of glaciers on either side. We got to within a quarter of a mile of John Hopkins’ Glacier. On the way out we spent 3 hours on deck watching for whales and managed a couple of small sightings. [...]

We haven’t blogged as much as we’d like but here’s how it’s been going. Day 1 – Vancouver – After arriving in Vancouver we had an overnight stay in a fantastic hotel – it was reall good. US Customs were backed up on the day we were boarding the ship so we ended up on [...]

About to leave for the airport for what should be a holiday of a lifetime. Hope you all keep reading to see how we get on and we’ll do our very best to post here as often as possible. Meanwhile keep an eye on the Sapphire Princess web cam and you might just see us. [...]