Optimism abounds as Ketchikan kicks off cruise season
Port communities in Southeast Alaska are seeing the return of cruise ships this week as the Norwegian Bliss made the inaugural voyage of the season. Tour operators and residents in Ketchikan say they’re glad to see some fresh faces in town.
Bagpipes greeted the first passengers of the 2022 cruise season in Ketchikan as they stepped off the megaship Norwegian Bliss. Visitors filed inside Ward Cove’s former pulp mill warehouse that’s now restyled as a cruise terminal.
Inside, Erika D’Monty was waiting for a kayak trip to the Tatoosh Islands after disembarking from the Bliss. Though the ship is carrying just about 2,000 people, about half of its capacity, the Vancouver, B.C. resident says the ship doesn’t feel like it.
Full story at https://www.krbd.org/2022/04/28/optimism-abounds-as-ketchikan-kicks-off-cruise-season/
