sunday, june 8 - glacier bay

1:00a - transiting the Lynn Canal
6:11a - pick up park rangers at Bartlett Cove
10:00a - 0.2nm off the face of Margerie Glacier
12:00p - clear skies, calm; 50 degrees F
5:00p - commence voyage to Ketchikan

We discovered that Herring Gulls are cruise groupies. It's not like we fed them, so I don't know why they followed us.

A grizzly walking along shore. Since we were almost 1/4 mi. away from shore, it's a little small.

The nesting colony of kittiwake gulls were really loud. You can see the little white dots speckled across the rock face. The little bits of brown below the white are their nests.

We got to see quite a bit of ice calve off the Margerie Glacier.

The Grand Pacific Glacier right next to it looked totally different, more reminiscent of lava or something.

This was the most people on the deck during any part of the cruise. The scenery was unbelievable.

As we were leaving, the biggest pieces of ice fell into the water.

Can you ID this bird floating on an ice chunk?

This is the John Hopkins Glacier (but a crew member told us it was the John Hancock) - over a mile wide at its face.

Watching the John Hopkins

Trying to stay warm on a deck chair

We ate at the Rotterdam Dining Room for supper. It was the second of the two formal nights. The lighting was so terrible, I don't have any more good pictures of us eating there. By that time I couldn't taste anything, so I don't remember much about the food.

Ryan with the beautiful sunset

Sorry it's blurry. We should have checked to make sure it turned out ok.