have been cruising all over the carribean, in the bahamas, both sides of mexico, through the panama canal and the islands off south america, in hawaii, the inside passage and gulf of alaska, in big ships and little ships and on my own boat. the best cruises of all ..... the ferry trips through the inside passages. prince willliam sound, to kodiak, and all the way out to dutch harbor -- can't beat the marine hiways of alaska!