This was a slow day as it was a cruise day… and cloudy, and rainy… but we made it to the Hubbard Glacier about 3:30pm… and the sky cleared a bit and it was just great… a place you can only see by ship or airplane..
As we get close we start to see ice… floating out…
Don’t look so big from here… but we are miles away yet… it is more than 9 miles across and some 900 ft. tall (give or take)… now that is a lot of ice… and on the other side..
Turner Glacier coming in from the other way and it is really filled with rocks and debris… They said that these two joined and were as much as 7 or more miles down stream a 1000 years ago but I doubt anyone knows for sure? I am sure they don’t have pictures of it back then… Some of the caving icebergs can be as much as a 10 story building falling or pushing up from below…
We got within a half mile and they spun the ship 360 degrees so everyone on every side got a good look..
So big we cant get it all on one shot… and you could hear the ice crack like big guns going off… I mean really big guns… cannons…
Then big chunks falling off… or pushing up…
Since we were still cruising from there to the next stop we took a tour of the galley… and we got lucky and the head chef gave our group tour…
Amazing they make 10,000 meals a day and most all of it was pretty good and they are artists as well…
Tonight we got a “Towel animal”… when we got back from dinner… but we have a lot of days ahead and lots to do so off to bed..
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