Our adventure into the unique national treasure of Glacier Bay began early this morning as we took a National Park ranger on board. We then proceeded up bay to the Margerie and Grand Pacific Glaciers, watching intently as the ice broke and cascaded down in a thousand small pieces into the waiting ocean water. The face of the glacier had been undercut by tidal activity and thus overstepped to the point that it broke or calved.
The day was wet and at times very cool, but we enjoyed the sights that Glacier Bay had to offer. There were the hundreds of nesting sea birds at South Marble Island, including tufted puffins, horned puffins, black-legged kittiwakes, glaucous-winged gulls and a bald eagle harassing them all.
There were sightings of brown bears, mountain goats, and even breaching humpback whales to finish off our day in one of the crown jewels of the National Park system.
