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Page IMS Alaskan cruise offers unmatched scenic grandeur What con explain he burgeoning more than popularity of the cruise ships that embark on about sailings of 19 sail up and down the coast of British cruise ships mostly from Columbia and Alaska This season SPECIAL exp 4 exp 5 24 exp 8 36 exp II FREE Double PHnta or Double Size CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS developing Only at Sootns One obvious reason Is the un matched scenic grandeur of the nor western extremities of our No other readily accessible coastal region In the world offers such magnificent vistas of snow capped mountain ranges There are impress coastal mountain ranges in Greenland and Antarctica but the sight of them is reserved for the truly serious ex plorer Some smalt colorful communities dot the northern British Columbia and Alaska coasts but hour after hour goes by on a cruise ship without a sign of human life anywhere ox cept on the ship Itself hours spent In awestruck contemplation of eter nallv snowy of constant shifting glaciers and of broad ex pa rises of sea T1IF LOVf BOAT But there another reason possibly more prosaic The popular TV series called Love Boat which began filming 10 years ago this month Is credited with in Travel Newsservice creasing public Interest in the general concept of cruising and In the particular destinations lhat were featured In various episodes The series now being repeated In local syndication focused each week on the lives of a small group of per on a cruise ship One New Zeal a rider Mary Kcaney was so Impressed with the episode In which the Love Boat salt from Vancouver to Alaska lhat she planned for several years and finally last month flew to Van and boarded Royal Princess to experience the at hand and to preserve on her video SHOP OUR YELLOW PAGE FIRST ANTENNA SERVICE Channel SINCE 1954 Delhi Boosters i30EGutphSt 877 3376 Brackets SALES APPLIANCES PARTS Maytag since 1954 Stove woods Elements Inglis Bells Dauby Pumps JGs Appliance Service 8778448 Aniwtrlag Sanies Home Service Call all major appliances moil makai and model It you meet by Accident CALL TV s Love Boat during the final years of Ihe series and flagship of the London based and OPrinccss Cnnses Tei years ago he was a senior of fleer aboard Pacific Princess when ship served as the sea going of the Love Boat and still remembers vividly the impact that the and its stars had upon viewers Not only did the show attract many first time passengers but a substantia proportion of would insist that they be booked on the specific sailings on which would take place Reed says adding that many passengers would then make heroic efforts to appear in crowd scenes ID The Boat scries may no longer be production but the de mand for space still grows at many of the ps that cm bet ween Vancouver and Alaska ore ly booked for the remainder of the 1988 season which in most cases ends In September Another sen or of the threc- earmold Princess Purser Paul Brougham notes first time passengers arc generally In t crested in visiting the maximum number of ports on a cruise In case or his Ihc Itinerary in eludes such colorful gold rush towns as Juneau near the famous Mendonhall Glacier and Ketchikan as well as the pipelineterminal city of Valdcz and the port of Seward jump point for Anchorage slates biggest city Usually however the more seasoned passengers put convenience at the top of priority lists Brougham says packing and packing ore required only once there a easy to Tine food and glamorous entertainment and passengers can choose to enjoy blessed Isolation from stresses of beautiful wonders PASSAGE By common consent are the highlights of Ihc typical Vancouver to- Alaska cruise The Inside Passage a sheltered waterway stretching from Puget Sound ail the way north to Skagway Alaska passing countless Islands dark forests and mountains plunging into Ihe sea Glacier Bay about 140 km nor thwesl of Juneau a collection of than tidewater glaciers that constitute one of he I it tie- known wonders of the world You will see lagged icebergs humpback whales seals eagles and falcons Columbia Glacier km long and km wide Is one of the largest tidewater glaciers on the Alaska coast Among the other 15 active of College Fjord all named US universities that supported exploratory expeditions 99 years ago the most accessible Is Harvard Glacier II presents a spectacular show of calving with sheets of Ice crashing into the fjord waters from Ihe face of the glacier every Tew minutes A CHECKLIST As you might expect in view of all that Ice and the Fact there arc always chill winds a I sea some warm clothing is a necessity Alaskans put on a show of an at outsiders misconcep tions about heir weather but the fact remains summer weather there can from hot to quite cold Be prepared Another precaution Is to book well in advance if you prefer certain soil dates ana certain types of ac com modal Ion Highest priced cabins tend to be snapped up more quickly than the cheapest It t loo early book for ihc 1969 cruising REGULAR 1 TIME CLEANING SILVER POLISHING CLOSETS CUP80ARDS LAUNDRY WINDOWS ETC REFERENCES 8771724