The ship itself is a work in progress, with some areas in fine condition and others awaiting restoration. We were even treated to ice cream in the ship's snack bar.
CLIPPER TOURS MOVIE
The tour lasts about an hour and includes a peek into the engine room, the bridge, passenger staterooms, the lounge with its bandstand and dancefloor, the extensive kitchen, and the ship's children's playroom, and its movie theater. Admission is currently $7 for adults, $5 for students, under 5 free.
CLIPPER TOURS FREE
There is plenty of free parking alongside. The Clipper is tied up at the end of an industrial pier on the south edge of Muskegon Lake. Tour information is located under the "Events" tab. The schedule varies and it's wise to consult the group's website. Directions and tour hours (listed under the "Events" tab) are found on the group's milwaukeeclipper dot com website.
Now a museum ship owned by a non-profit, the Clipper is open for public tours. It operated a regular service between Muskegon and Milwaukee until 1970. It was rebuilt in 1940 with new passenger decks in Streamline Art Moderne style, its cargo area was reconfigured to handle automobiles, and the ship was renamed the Milwaukee Clipper. Save your money and time unless you are just along for the ride.Built in 1904 as the Juniata, this 361-foot ship is several years older than the Titanic. They in fact don’t promise anything else and don’t deliver anything else either. That sighting did,however, keep their promise of seeing a whale or get a return trip. Or are “thrilled” to have seen a single calf traveling as an experience warranting a steep price. Never have we been misled as to the current chances or known deficiencies whereby they basically say fat chance. We’ve seen lots of whale activity over many years in different places as well as varieties of sea life. However,there are patterns of behavior whereby honest tour operators will give educational guesses based on experience and realtime data and sightings from lots of present sources. Whereafter we turned to motor back.Īlong the way we saw boats sailing and motoring, more sea life i guess.įinal analysis if I haven’t waxed on too much to lose you, Sea life in the ocean or Fiords or Sounds, is generally subject to averages to be sighted depending on season, weather, feeding, mating, traveling and can be random. Sufficient time to allow anyone on board the chance to see a blow of vapor and v of a tail. List of available tours and activities vary based on travel dates. We stayed following it for about forty five minutes or more. Clipper offers a variety of handpicked tours and activities to add to your package when booking your trip. You could tell it was so because we actually got to see it spouting followed immediately by a small tail. Finally, after about an hour and a half or two, a lone Humpback calf was spotted cruising. Even they averted leaping out of the water, presumably content to travel mostly below the uninterrupted top water but come up momentarily to breath. Then we actually were favored with the sight of a school of traveling porpoise in the distance. Did i mention that thereafter, this same naturalist was overjoyed ti point out “Sea Life” which totaled a single harbor seal laying in a buoy( which the Captain slowed spending abundant time to acquaint us all with the rare sighting if sea life. Then, upon further inquiry admitting the past families have not been any frequent visitors for years, moving elsewhere out of Puget Sound leaving only happenstance of random, occassion and infrequent sightings. Didn’t know that until asking the “naturalist” on board while underway whereupon she responded “ only if you can make them materialize”. Before signing up, we were never told that the Orca Whales we hoped to see were not within any conceivable range of the trip to see.
Although a comfortable, well equipped vessel for the purpose, that ends the pros.Ĭons, no pun intended, but a con job it is. If still reading, the Whale watch trip on the San Juan out of Seattle is not only a play on words, but a disingenuous promotion. Warning! Do not read this review if you can’t handle the truth.
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