Glacier Bay

The ship entered Glacier Bay National Park very early in the morning and spent the entire

day cruising up, down and around the channel.  The glaciers are beautiful.  They looked so small compared to the Hubbard Glacier that we visited on our first cruise.  Then we realized we were on a much bigger ship and were much higher up and were almost looking down at them rather than up. 

The calving of the glaciers is an awesome thing.   They make a loud crack like thunder which echoes throughout the mountains and then a chunk of the glacier falls into the water.  At Hubbard, we saw it calve a huge, huge chunk of ice which went down into the water and then popped back up and was an iceberg.  One third the size of the ship. 

The calving we saw this time was smaller and sometimes we just heard the crack of the ice and never saw the ice fall.  It could have been way back up into the glacier.  The ship did a 360 degree turn or two so everyone could view it.

 We stayed on our balcony for a long time and could see it from there.  Yes, it was cold...brrr.