Some Ideas for
Wedding Locations:
Wedding Locations
Bearing Sea Crab Boat
The Aleutian Ballad is a real Bering Sea crab fishing boat featured in the Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch program. It has been completely remodeled to provide passengers with the opportunity to experience commercial fishing first hand in comfort and safety. During the run, you will be able to familiarize yourselves with the boat and her colorful history as a working crab fishing vessel and learn about Alaska`s fisheries and the gear you are likely to encounter during your cruise through Alaskan waters. You will get to meet the crew and see what they pull up as they go to work.
Misty Fjords
Misty Fjords National Monument is located at the southern end of the Tongass National Forest and covers 2.3 million acres, making it the largest wilderness in Alaska's national forests and the second largest in the nation.
It is covered with thick forests that grow on nearly vertical slopes rising from sea level to mountain tops. Dramatic waterfalls plunge into the salt water through narrow clefts or pour over great rounded granite shoulders fed by lakes and streams that absorb the annual rainfall of more than 14 feet. The major waterway cutting through the monument, Behm Canal, is more than 100 miles long and extraordinary among natural canals for its length and depth.
Few areas of the U.S. contain as many unusual wildlife species, including
mountain goat, brown bear, black bear, moose, marten, wolf, wolverine,
river otter, sea lion, harbor seal, killer whale and Dall porpoise. It's
common to see bald eagles in Misty Fjords, swooping down to snatch salmon
out of the water, or to see jellyfish moving through the clear, dark-green
waters. Mist and clouds often hover over Misty Fjords, the source of its
name.
The most awe inspiring places within Misty Fjords National Monument include Rudyerd Bay, where Punchbowl Cove is surrounded by rounded, almost-vertical cliffs, and New Eddystone Rock, a 237-foot-tall remnant core of an extinct volcano named by Captain George Vancouver after a lighthouse in England.
Tongass National Forest
The Tongass National Forest, managed by the U.S. Forest Service, was created in 1907 by Teddy Roosevelt. It covers nearly 17 million acres and is America's largest national forest and the largest temperate rainforest in the world. The terrain ranges from sea to mountain-top glaciers, includes over 1000 islands and a long, narrow strip of mainland, and supports a rich array of fauna and flora, including ancient stands of old-growth forests.
George Inlet Lodge
George Inlet Lodge is nestled in a pristine bay about 11 miles south of Ketchikan., and can be reached on the road system, by sea or by air. The lodge is a former cannery building originally built in Hidden Inlet on the Portland Canal in 1940. In 1969 it was moved to Mud Bight, and then in 1975 to its present location where it serves as the home of two premier Alaska tours. The scenery surrounding the lodge is breathtaking, and the facilities provide the perfect setting for a real Alaskan wedding.
