Finally a day of sun although it didn't look promising at day break. Day 7 saw us enter Glacier Bay for a day of cruising and looking at all the glaciers and mountains. I was up at sunrise and walked out on deck to be greeted by pea soup. I looked over the side and couldn't see the water. Not again. Another day of rain and clouds.
I walked around the deck and as the sun rose it burnt off the fog and soon I had some visibility and after an hour or so we had our sunniest day of the cruise so far. The scenery did not disappoint. Now this is what I was hoping for.
A ranger from the National Park Service coming aboard to provide a series of information lectures on what we were going to see in Glacier Bay. The boat appeared like magic out of the mist.
As the sun began to burn off the mist some of natures beauty began to appear.
The water was like glass except for the wake created by our ship.
Finally some blue skies and snow covered majestic peaks with glaciers flowing, albeit slowly, down the valleys
Snow, ice and people frolicking in the pool. Quite the combination.
Every few minutes we would hear what sounded like rolling thunder echoing through the bay. What it was was large pieces of the glacier breaking off and falling into the water as shown in this picture.
The size of everything was hard to grasp. We were a few miles from the shore and it would have been amazing to be on a smaller ship that could have taken us right up to the ice flows and glaciers. In fact there was a smaller ship that was doing just that.
We were greeted by sea otters floating on their backs. They were so cute with their little paws resting on their fat bellies. It looked like some of them were waving at us as we passed by.
One of the otters was catching a ride on an ice flow.
Even the gulls were putting on a show for us. Next up College Fjord.
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