June 29th, Glacier Bay

We entered Glacier Bay at about 6:30 this morning. The water is very still and the skies are grey. Before breakfast we spotted a few seals in the water.

The morning has gotten increasingly foggy. The ship is blowing its fog horn every few minutes. With the increasing amount of glacier ice in the water, it is becoming a little Titanicesque. Every once and a while you can see the shore line through the fog. Hopefully, it will clear a bit by the time we get to the glacier about 11:00. We are having mid-morning coffee on our verandah. We are pretty wrapped up, but in is very serene. They said there were a couple of whales this morning, but we haven't seen them yet. There is hope, it is getting brighter.

We were very cllose to several glaciers. We sailed past the Lamplugh Glacier. We spent about an hour in front of the Margerie and Grand Pacific Glaciers The captain kept turning the ship so the view was always changing. You could hear the cracking of the glaciers.

The bad parents were feeding the gulls, so of course, the bad child was screaming, but evidently not loud enough to cause a large chunk to fall off. She was too big for a gull to carry her away. There were rangers from the national park service to help explain the history of the area and what was going on. We spent some time in the crows nest, but could actually see better from our verandah, so we bundled up and spent most of our time there.

As we were leaving the glaciers, we ate lunch in the Rotterdam dining room. There is table service. I had a greaty lamb curry. Loise had the salmon, again.

We spent the after noon looking for whales and bear and saw seals and eagles. Love the verandah.

Dinner was good, as usual. Lois started with the Escargots Bourguignon and I had the Duck Pate, Caviar and Smoked Salmon. For the next course I had the Cream of Four Mushroom soup and Lois had the Baby Spinachand Button Mushrrom.

 

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