August 23, 2018

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Thursday Aug 23

We spent all day at sea, cruising Glacier Bay National Park. There are many glaciers in this phenomenal fjord. It’s a very serene atmosphere here, mostly because people are in awe of the scenery. We took a lot of pictures. It was quite cold so every half an hour or so, we had to get back inside to warm up.

The ship stopped at Margerie Glacier for about an hour. This glacier is about 30 km in length, 2 km at its widest, and about 80 meters above sea level at the front. After about an hour, we got lucky and observed a calving. Spectacular. We heard the loud boom about a second or so after the break-off, so we estimated that we were about 300-400 meters away, as close as is comfortable.

The Princess Dancers were phenomenal in their show “Born to Dance”. Makes us reflect on why we liked the TV show So You Think You Can Dance so much. Very athletic young people and they can sing too!

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Photos

Glacier calving (look closely)
Doesn’t look that big but don’t forget the glacier wall is about 80 meters high!