Where We Spend Our First Full Day On Board Cruising Through Glacier Bay National Park
The morning started off rather gloomy.
But we could just about make out Steller Sea Lions on the rocks around us as we approached Marble Knob
But the fog quickly improved, thank goodness.
Around 9:00 a.m., we picked up two passengers: a park ranger for Glacier National Park and a Tlingit native interpreter. The term “interpreter” didn’t have much if anything to do with translating languages as interpreting Tlingit native culture for our edification. Both delivered excellent presentations as we sailed along through Glacier Bay.
Bear alert!
We also were looking for mountain goat, which is extremely difficult to spot. They look like white dots with feet on the mountains. There’s a lot of white dots on the mountains, and most of them do not have feet.
We arrived at the Margerie glacier around 2:00 p.m. Plied with hot chocolate, assorted flavors of alcohol, as well as assorted kinds of brownies, we spent quite a bit of time watching the glacier, waiting for to calve. We did hear the booms and crashes of calving a couple of times, but I didn’t capture that in a photo or video.
It’s truly impossible to capture the magnificence of this glacier.
Eventually it was time to turn around and sail back through and on to Haines. We passed by a couple of other glaciers along the way.
Otters were spotted floating on an ice raft. They quickly jumped into the water as the boat sailed by.
Some time during dinner, the park ranger and Tlingit native interpreter were sent back to land via a ship’s tender.
After dinner we had a quiet evening in our room, listening to the port talk and the evening’s entertainment via the ship’s TV channel.
Tomorrow: Haines, AK
Maryland Meshugas 