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by HalH1

The Sea Otter trip was good, but the naturalist on our trip was not as communicative as many and contradicted items mentioned by the naturalist on the whale watching trip in Juneau. After arriving home and checking the Juneau naturalist had the correct information, the Sitka one was wrong on several points regarding Humpback whales and Sea Otters. Sitka is probably the most interesting Alaska port visited, but suffers from the same chain stores as the rest of the ports. Much of the retail activity (and those advertised aboard the ship ad nauseum) are the same in all these ports and the same ones found in Caribbean ports-initial retail appearance is the same in Sitka and St. Thomas. These retailers must either be owned by rhe cruise lines or follow them around. The cruise lines advertise them excessively and their prices are terrible-although that should be expected from retail insititutions in a cruise port. They advertise duty free prices and offer very high prices.

Visited: Jun 24, 2009

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