Ice Flows around the Glaciers:
Sunday we took a day trip by boat (about 40'?) about 3 hours one way through the inside passage to a very long and narrow fjord. It rained off and on but we had jackets and did well. Michael spent almost the ENTIRE trip up at the front of the bow watching what was coming. Ben sat up in the wheel house with the captain most of the trip. We big icebergs floating out of the fjord which were just amazing. The blue color of the iceberg is when the iceberg is new, after time it turns white with sun exposure.
There are 2 glaciers at the end of the Fjord and both of them have been "calfiing" where big chunks of the ice fall. It was a little unnerving for this little boat to work it's way into the ice flow but he did manage to get us pretty close. there were tons of harbor seals hanging out on the ice, it's is their summer birthing place.
We spent several hours in the area of the glaciers watching them calf (which was like hearing a cannon). There were a ton of Eagles in the area. There were a bunch hanging out on a big iceberg and then another group that was fishing as the diving ducks were stirring up the fish.
We did see one humpback whale on the way home. It didn't stay long. Our guide says that if there are Orca whale pods in the area then the humpbacks go elsewhere. They saw a huge pod of the Orcas yesterday.
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