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This item SOLD at 2024 Feb 24 @ 21:26UTC-9 : AKST
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SCI Alaska Chapter's Online Live Auction February 23rd & 24th, 2024.
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Exhibitor Peter Dumon owner of North of Ordinary Adventures is offering a 4 Day 3 Night luxury fishing vacation at his Waterfall Resort Lodge, for 2 anglers to experience premiere Alaska fishing for king, silver and pink salmon, plus halibut, lingcod, rockfish and black bass fishing, that begins with your arrival in Ketchikan, Alaska, and includes your transportation via floatplane out to the lodge.
Waterfall Resort is a beautifully restored, historic seafood cannery turned world-class sport-fishing resort. Located on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska, near Ketchikan, it is legendary for waters rich with wild salmon and halibut.
This Package is for two guests on a 3-night itinerary, starting with your arrival in Ketchikan, Alaska is valid during the 2024 season, which runs mid-June through mid-August. Accommodations are double occupancy, two guests per room. Fishing is four guests per cabin cruiser and upgrades may be available.
Voted Alaska’s best fishing resort, Waterfall Resort is offering you a chance to truly unplug and escape the daily grind, with this 4 day/3 night Alaska fishing trip package, you’re on the boat and fishing the day you arrive at the resort!
By that evening, you have landed fish, seen the surrounding wildlife and awe-inspiring scenery, perhaps visited our popular Lagoon Saloon to partake in the camaraderie and fun of other guests at the resort, and you’ve enjoyed a delicious dinner. There’s still time under the midnight sun to take a stroll to our namesake waterfall, too.
“Best resort in Alaska.” —Readers Choice Awards, 2019, 2018 finalist; 2017, 2016 winner; NW Meetings + Events Magazine
Included: Round-trip floatplane transportation between Ketchikan and Waterfall Resort. Lodging in historic Boardwalk Cabin or oceanfront Lodge Room. All meals, including complimentary Pacific Coast wines with dinner. Daily housekeeping and Wi-Fi hotspots. Guided fishing from 25-foot, heated cabin cruisers. All fishing tackle, bait, equipment, and use of all-weather gear. Fish trimming and packing in fish boxes for travel and On-site Alaska Airlines service for easy return-flight check-in.
Not Included: Commercial airfare to Ketchikan, baggage fees, overnight stay before/after in Ketchikan $350.00 (if required). Alaska fishing licenses, King Salmon Stamp, King of Kings Salmon Fishing Tournament tickets, and gratuities.
Not Included: Additional anglers are not included but they can be added at $9,440.00 per angler.
Schedule Dates, June 4 thru September 4, 2024.
Here’s what others had to say about their Waterfall Resort Vacation:
“IT'S OLD FRIENDS WHO’VE BEEN COMING FOR DECADES—AS EXCITED ABOUT A BIG FISH AS THE GUYS WHO JUST CAUGHT THEIR FIRST SALMON.” ALASKA AIRLINES BEYOND
“It does not get better than arriving in the morning by seaplane and setting out in comfortable, heated, four-person craft in the afternoon … to where the fish are biting and giant catches are the norm for the day.” —Business Traveler
“Alaska enjoys one of the longest summer solstices in North America, with ... Waterfall Resort shining in more than 17 hours of sunlight on the days surrounding the first day of summer.” —iReport.com, CNN
“Alaska’s premier saltwater fishing lodge.” —TravelAge West
“When you look up hospitality in the dictionary, there should be a picture of Waterfall Resort. Don’t look for flaws, for they do not exist.” —TripAdvisor
“I came back with a good haul of salmon, halibut, and lingcod fillets as well as a boatload of memories of the blast I had fishing. ” —Travel Weekly
“A wildlife utopia with bald eagles, black bears, humpback whales, and more ... where talented guides coach anglers of all levels, and all rooms have forest or ocean views.” —Country Living
“Orcas breach in the mist not 100 feet from our boat, where I struggle with a king salmon that runs out the line like an energetic dog, raindrops pinwheeling off the reel.” —Northwest Travel + Life
“That namesake waterfall? It’s frequented by black bears and full of salmon fighting their way up the falls to spawn upstream. ” —Escape Hatch Dallas
“Wrestling with a feisty underwater opponent at the end of an invisible hook can be hard work: the rare form of exercise that encourages both beer drinking and nature photography.” —New York Daily News
“The reel screamed like an ambulance as the fish headed in the general direction of Japan. I let him go. Let him, hell, he gave me no option!” —Barnaby Conrad for the Los Angeles Times
“Prince of Wales Island sits at the crossroads of southbound migrating salmon. The west side of the island can easily be described as a salmon superhighway.” —Go Fish Magazine
“In addition to world-class fishing, guests have access to view whales, bears, eagles, otters, puffins, and more. Since its conversion from a cannery, Waterfall Resort has hosted over 60,000 guests, in some cases third-generation fishers who come back year after year.” —Alaska Business Monthly
For more information contact, Megan Thomasgard at 805-879-3780 or via email at: mthomasgard@waterfallresort.com.
Waterfall Resorts website: https://www.waterfallresort.com/
Donation Value: $18,800.00
Auction Location:
600 West 7th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska, 99501, United States
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