Blogs from Hubbard Glacier, Alaska, United States, North America

Today was a good day that left me a bit in awe of Alaska. I woke-up and forced myself to go exercise like a normal person. I have met my step goal every day on vacation but today I actually huffed it around the track for over 2 miles and got my heart rate up and even sweated a little bit. It felt great!! It’s not surprising how fast I can walk with no dog on the leash and a nice, level surface. After walking and breakfast, I watched the movie “Gifted” on our stateroom TV. It was okay. Today our ship sailed to the Hubbard Glacier which is the most northern part of this ship’s journey for us. The glacier is 76 miles long and 6 miles wide and is the largest glacier in North ... read more

Hubbard Glacier 31 July 2016 The next morning, we woke to more wonderful weather with a little more cloud cover. We had reached the Hubbard Glacier which is slowly moving into the Pacific. Again, another stunning site. We had a relaxing day on board the ship with it being the first and only day we did not see too much land. The crew put on a talent show for us. It was good to see the ‘other side’ of some of the talented crew. Acts varied from a Balinese dance, to singing, hip-hop dance to comedy act. There was also a cake cooking contest between the cruise director and one other crew member. They made black forest cakes. Of course there was too much cherry brandy put on the cake and the cream was flying everywhere. ... read more

Photos from the Hubbard Glacier Well, since this blog is primarily about the photos, this entry will surely be a short one. There were only a total of 25 exposures that were deemed worthy of entering the digital darkroom, and only 18 of those were forced into the gallery. You can imagine that the criteria of acceptance were drastically relaxed, and the results were again a day without wall-hangers. We woke early enough for a fine breakfast, then lazed around the ship and socialized. By early afternoon we were testing the quality of each bartender’s version of a caipirhina. Surprisingly they were all made properly with all the right ingredients, and we felt much more at home after the tests. Finally in the late afternoon we arrived at the day’s destination, the Hubbard Glacier. I was ... read more

Geo: 59.9197, -139.542The return trip delivered! We travelled back along the coast for 24 hours, flanked by the snow capped peaks of the coastal mountains. Hubbard Glacier loomed just as imposing and just as blue. But it did seem as if the bay was covered with more floating ice and icebergs on this return visit.The ship nudged much closer today and unfortunately we had been listening to the Captain's updates which indicated we would arrive later than expected. We lounged around and eventually went up to the observation deck only to be met with hundreds of guests who had arrived much earlier than us. There were absolutely no spots left on the railing so short people in the second or third rows were out of luck!So I hightailed it to the open Deck 6 and secured ... read more

Woke up to find had a bit of a roll on happening. Unfortunately it was just the boat! First real movement in the boat...and this is now all sounding wrong. Weather was overcast and cold as. First real cold snap we have experienced but we are at the northern most point of our travels. Had breakfast in the Aqua restaurant which is the health type bar / cafe on the ship. Funnily enough only a handful of our companions seem to frequent it. Things like orange rind and zucchini muffins and similar along with whites only omelettes with mushroom and spinach kind of explained the limited patronage. The food was great here also and we managed to sneak some healthier food past the king of pizza although it did involve lying. Missy found heaps to go ... read more