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Yikes, it's Monday already. This is a "sea day", cruising up Endicott Arm to visit Endicott glacier. Started seeing little chunks of ice floating by pretty early this morning. The hardy souls will be kayaking and taking Zodiacs out to get closer to the glacier. We, however, will view it from the comfort of the Yacht Club.
Lots of excitement this morning as we neared the glacier. Everyone up early to have breakfast before the excursions. We had just alight breakfast in the Yacht Club so we could watch all of the activity. As we approached the glacier, the bow was filled with people in awe of the sight. Endicott Arm got narrower and narrower until we were a couple of miles from the glacier. It's is so hard to get the real feel of the massive height of a glacier from afar.
We spent all day just hanging out at the glacier. The weather was overcast, breezy, and cold but blessedly dry. Lunch had an Italian theme at the buffet and, as always, a wonderful variety.
We spent most of the day in the Yacht Club visiting with new acquaintances and watching the adventurous ones paddle out. Not much in the way of wildlife except for one lazy seal that posed for about 1000 photos. We were next to a wonderful waterfall that starts way up at the ice field and cascades down to produce a lovely sound..
Dinner was wonderful - I had wild mushroom wellington and Mary had her first beef dish of the trip. We have been asking for Christelle's section, she is just a lovely girl and so sweet.
Back to relax before our next shore excursion tomorrow. A behemoth cruise ship passed us by and sent out a wake that had us rocking for a time.
And Mary saw a humpback!!
Iceburgs were the first hint we were approaching the glacier
In the narrow fjord, we were dwarfed by the surrounding mountains. This is the view through the skylight in the Yacht Club.
Everyone in awe of the glacier. It was only 47 outside and windy but passengers were going in and out.
Approaching the glacier. Windstar gets much closer than the big ships due to its size.
The compression of the ice give it that beautiful blue color.
Nature is tenacious of life. Every place a plant can cling, it does.
An extreme closeup of the kayak group heading for the glacier with the chase boat behind.
And to give perspective, the same picture from the ship. The chase boat is the tiny black dot near the shoreline at the right about a quarter of the way from the right edge of the picture.
The rock faces are all so unique an beautiful. The newer areas have little to no vegetation.
A lazy seal grinning as we went by,
A close by iceburg with a cool pattern.
Just had to throw this in. They have put all of the pieces of various games in what appear to be books. They are all on the shelf in the Yacht Club.
A larger view of the kayaks and chase boat. Can you see them now? There is a tourist boat at the left near the glacer. Again, for perspective, that boat is at least a half mile (required) from the face of the glacier. The foot of the glacier is at least 128 stories high.
Our route from Haines to the glacier and the start of the journey to Wrangell.
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