The Love Boat at Whittier Alaska
by Connie Fox
Title
The Love Boat at Whittier Alaska
Artist
Connie Fox
Medium
Photograph - Outdoor Color Photo
Description
Beautiful outdoor late-afternoon side profile photograph of the “Pacific Princess” in 2015, ready for her next cruise. From Whittier, Alaska, she would cruise to Yakutat Bay National Park and continue to Glacier Bay National Park, Inside Passage, with her final destination in Vancouver. From there, according to a family we met from Australia, she would continue on to Hawaii.
In 2015, when we took our pull-out-the-stops land-and-sea cruise-tour through Princess Cruises, this little globe-trotter, the “Love Boat” of television fame, was the smallest ship in the Princess Cruise Line. It carried about 500 passengers, far fewer than a mega-ship--ideal for getting as close as possible to glaciers and the stunning scenery and topography of Yakutat Bay, Glacier Bay, and Inside Passage. This image is also available in black-and-white in this gallery. Both images capture how she may have looked in her television days. In 2021, Princess Cruise Lines retired this ship, called the “Pacific Princess” at the time. But I’m hoping an entrepreneur with vision and an eye for beauty gave her a fresh start.
Most of the passengers boarded here at Whitter, located southeast of Anchorage and not far from Valdez on the Gulf of Alaska. We had completed the land portion of our journey, having flown into Fairbanks. From there we traveled by bus and train to Denali and Talkeetna, then Whittier. Now we could rest and relax, and let the ship and her crew do the work. A southbound land-and-sea journey, from Fairbanks to Vancouver, is recommended.
A simple sky and rugged Alaska mountain with glacier provide the background. Small boats in the harbor fill the foreground. For anyone who has cruised on the Pacific Princess under various names and owners, including Renaissance Cruises, this would be a nice keepsake.
Copyright 2015-2021 Connie Steitz Fox
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December 3rd, 2021
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