Boats and ferries - recommend your favorite water-based trips please
Replies: 29 - Last Post: Jul 25, 2012 1:22 PM Last Post By: moongoddess
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Take the Badger across Lake Michigan between Ludington, MI and Manitowoc, WI.18
Queen of the West paddle-wheeler on the Columbia River in Oregon/Washington/Idaho - Portland to Leweston, Idaho http://usarivercruises.com/destinations/northwest/20
Lake Erie - Long Point, Canada to Put-In-Bay and Middle Bass Island to Sandusky, OH...crosses Lake Erie, connecting Canada and the United States and has stops on a couple small islands.21
I also recommend the Navimag Ferry through the Chilean Inside Passage to Puerto Natales in the Patagonian Alps. You can then take a bus from Puerto Natales to El Calafate and El Chalten, then a shuttlebus and ferry across the Alps back to Chile. Or, you could take the bus to Tierra del Fuego/Ushuaia, and catch a boat to Antarctica. There is even a popular sailing ship to Antarctica.Also the Alaska Marine Highway from Bellingham, Washington, through Alaska's Inside Passage and past Glacier Bay and Yakutat and to Whittier in the Prince William Sound. There is a ferry from Whittier to Cordova and Valdez, past the Columbia Glacier. I enjoyed taking the ferry from Bellingham to Haines, Alaska, then drove past the St. Elias Mountains to Haines Junction, then north on the Alaska-Canada Highway homeward. I also took the ferry from Skagway to Juneau several times roundtrip. Another route of the Alaska ferries is from Homer, Alaska, to Kodiak Island, and onward west along the chain of Aleutian Islands.
I took the 2 hours' shuttleboat in the Galapagos Islands from Santa Cruz to Isabela Island. I do recommend nutrax' recommendation of taking a small boat from mainland Ecuador across to the Galapagos Islands and throughout the Islands.
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Two other ferries to consider;Cape May-Lewes Ferry between NJ and Delaware.
http://www.capemaylewesferry.com/
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The Cross Sound ferry which goes between Montauk, NY and New London, CT. https://www.longislandferry.com/
They are both car ferries if you are driving.
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The ferry trip from Blacks Harbour New Brunswick Canada to Grand Manan Island looks nice - might do that next year.26
I heard that there are small whale-watching boats that go out of Grand Manan. The summer of 2009, when I was staying in the vicinity, there were so many schools of small fish near shore that there were also a multitude of whale sightings near shore -- I saw a minske whale surfing in on a tidal wave close to the lighthouse on Campobello Island.Did you see the recent photo of a huge whale shark underneath a tiny motorboat which was posted on the Yahoo.com news photos? Whales do breach from underneath boats and flip them over every now and then. Tit for tat!
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Whale sharks are very common at Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia - magic. But I agree - I wouldn't like my little boat to be upset by one.28
Balboa Island ferry, Newport Beach, CA29
Lots of small shuttles hopping from island to island and island to mainland along downeast Maine.
