OK, so the Inside Passage deserves its own entry. All the guidebooks, tourist information centres, etc. say that it is THE most spectacular ferry journey in the world: and you think "Yeah, Right", but in this case, they may have a point... It was an early old start yesterday. We had to be up at 05:00 to get to the ferry terminal for 05:30 (somewhat ridiculously they load the ferry at 06:00, but don't set off until 07:30... Mark Woods - how happy would you have been???...anyway...). The first couple of hours on the MV Northern Expedition were not that great as we bounced across the tempestuous maelstrom of the Pacific Ocean (Queen Charlotte's Sound) to get from Vancouver Island into the shelter of the coast islands. But once we made it across the sound, the
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