Princess Louisa Inlet
We sailed south and east all night in Georgia Strait and awoke in Jervis Inlet on our way to Princess Louisa Inlet. Indian pictographs along the cliff faces reminded us that this region has been occupied for a very long time. Another early observer was Captain George Vancouver, who passed this way in 1792.
Our movement into Princess Louisa Inlet was delayed as we waited for low tide slack water at the treacherous, narrow, and S-shaped Malibu Rapids. Guests boarded Zodiacs and preceded the Sea Bird through this treacherous passage. From our upstream view, it appeared that the ship was driving right up on the rocks, but Captain Doherty and his crew negotiated the rapid with great skill and style.
The ship went on up the inlet, while guests traveled in Zodiacs under low, rainy skies. The Lindblad Expeditions distinction between a cruise and an expedition was made clear to everyone as we traversed spectacular scenery in equally spectacular rain.
Princess Louisa Inlet is a lovely, narrow fiord, lined with cliffs and waterfalls. As we caught up with the Sea Bird we could see and hear 120-foot high Chatterbox Falls at the Inlet’s terminus.
Boarding the ship to dry out and have lunch, we were delighted with a sudden and dramatic opening of the cloud cover, revealing walls of falls, towering cliffs, and even a rainbow! One of the guests said, “If this isn’t the most beautiful place I ever saw, I have forgotten the other one”.
We sailed south and east all night in Georgia Strait and awoke in Jervis Inlet on our way to Princess Louisa Inlet. Indian pictographs along the cliff faces reminded us that this region has been occupied for a very long time. Another early observer was Captain George Vancouver, who passed this way in 1792.
Our movement into Princess Louisa Inlet was delayed as we waited for low tide slack water at the treacherous, narrow, and S-shaped Malibu Rapids. Guests boarded Zodiacs and preceded the Sea Bird through this treacherous passage. From our upstream view, it appeared that the ship was driving right up on the rocks, but Captain Doherty and his crew negotiated the rapid with great skill and style.
The ship went on up the inlet, while guests traveled in Zodiacs under low, rainy skies. The Lindblad Expeditions distinction between a cruise and an expedition was made clear to everyone as we traversed spectacular scenery in equally spectacular rain.
Princess Louisa Inlet is a lovely, narrow fiord, lined with cliffs and waterfalls. As we caught up with the Sea Bird we could see and hear 120-foot high Chatterbox Falls at the Inlet’s terminus.
Boarding the ship to dry out and have lunch, we were delighted with a sudden and dramatic opening of the cloud cover, revealing walls of falls, towering cliffs, and even a rainbow! One of the guests said, “If this isn’t the most beautiful place I ever saw, I have forgotten the other one”.
