Thursday 11th July
Today the whole day is dedicated to cruising up and down Glacier Bay to look at glaciers (of course!), icebergs and wildlife. This did not seem very enthralling to me (although James and Davie were very excited about it) but it turned out to be fascinating. We went up to the top deck after breakfast and the scenery was so amazing that the morning just flew by. We cruised up past Reid and Lamplugh Glaciers, then the ship turned in view of John Hopkins Glacier and sailed up the Tarr Inlet towards Grand Pacific Glacier. We saw a moose standing on the shore! We also saw a seal swimming and three grizzly bears padding around on a grassy bank above a stony beach. There were bald-headed eagles flying about and seagulls and wee black and white ducks. The most spectacular glacier was the Margerie Glacier which looked like a big pile of blocks of ice, and which made creaking noises and gunshot noises from time to time, upon which a large bit of ice would break off and go crashing into the water.
In the afternoon as we were sailing back out of Glacier Bay, James commented that the water was like whale soup! There were several groups, one of which had at least a dozen humpback whales; blowing, curving their backs and dorsal fins out of the water, and flicking their wide tails upwards into the air as they dived. They must have been feeding.
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