Alaska is known as the last great frontier. When you visit Prince of Wales Island, you will see that this still holds true. Magnificent forests, cold blue waters, abundant wildlife and native history are prevalent here. The sounds, sights and smells are things that you will always remember. The sound of a bald eagle soring overhead, or a humpback whale slapping the surface. The sight of a fog enshrouded shoreline with a gray sun trying to breakthrough. And finally the smell of salt spray in the unbelievably crisp clean air. All this is to be found in SE Alaska.

The landscape is characterized by steep, forested mountains and deep "U" shaped valleys, streams, lakes, saltwater straits, and bays that were carved by glacial ice, which once covered this entire area. The blanket of spruce-hemlock forest is broken by scattering of muskegs, or bogs. Most of the mountains on the island are 2,000 to 3,000 feet high. It is not uncommon to see Bald Eagles, Black Bear, Sitka Blacktail Deer, and an occasional Timber Wolf. The island is also the ancestral home of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes.

The temperate rainforests of the Tongass National Forest, and waters of the Alaska Inside Passage, provide a spectacular natural setting to view whales, porpoise, seals, otters, bald eagles, deer, bear, sea birds, and other wildlife. Since the Federal government says we can't pen them up, and most have failed to respond to our efforts to domesticate them, our Captains strive to keep tabs on their general locations. On any given day during the season many, and sometimes all, of the species can be seen.