Columbia Glacier Valdez

... AK - Day 2 of 2 On our agenda today was a cruise on the Lu-Lu Belle, "the limousine of Prince William Sound," to the Columbia Glacier to rub noses with icebergs and see lots of wildlife. We were told that the Lu-Lu Belle is Alaska's most plush tour ...

... with marshmellows. It was raining quite hard but luckily we were really warm. Layers, loads of layers! We headed off again to Columbia Glacier and we were met with a strange and wonderful sight. The icebergs were a couple of meters high out of the water ...

... in fish and transferring them into tenders by huge conveyor belt contraptions. Finally the captain maneuvered the ship very close to the Columbia Glacier, which is a "tidewater" glacier that drops large chunks of ice into the sound. The glacial ice is ...

... take the time to go for a short 20 minute hike up to a viewing point that will give us an idea of just how much ice the Columbia glacier can shed. Its soon time to return to the kayaks and continue on out from the bergs into the open sea where we hug the ...

... than I will ever see for the rest of my entire life. The captain was cool enough to bring us in the glacier bay of Columbia glacier. making is way throug small icebergs. What a sight. Check your email tomorrow. I will be downloading some pictures for ...

... sea otters, sea lions, puffins, bald eagles, and several humpback whales. The most fascinating thing we saw was the Columbia Glacier. More specifically, it was the Columbia Glacier ice field, which stretched out from the glacier for more than ten miles. ...

... colony of sea lions - about a hundred of them sunning on the rocks and making all kinds of noise. Finally, we approached the Columbia Glacier. First, we had to go though some ice chunks to get there - they called these ice cubes but the largest ones ...

... mini Orca whales and are the fastest mammals in the water. Next, an iceberg. This was a large floating piece of ice from the Columbia Glacier. Since it was over 15 ft. tall, it is classified as a iceberg. The piece we saw above water was only 10 percent ...

Tips for travellers: 1) Pangaea Adventures for kayaking trips to Columbia Glacier were great. Good friendly informative guides; 2) Tour took 10 hours all up with about 4 hours of paddling and cost $229 ex tip; We took an amazing kayak tour through ...

... saw a few others catch some as well, but this guy must have had the right spot. On Wednesday I headed to Valdez to take a glacier cruise to the Columbia Glacier and do some fishing. On the way down to Valdez I saw something that I have not seen in a ...