Glacier Bay Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve

Today I got up and went to another morning yoga class. I didn't have the same instructor as the last time but this guy was equally as hot and also from Australia...I have to put Australia on my travel list!

We were treated to scenes of beautiful glaciers as we were doing yoga. The ship was starting to head into Glacier Bay National Park. …

Glacier Bay national park is not to be missed by anyone going first time to Alaska on a cruise. Only few cruise companies including Holland America is permitted to enter Glacier Bay. The park rangers board the ship at 7 in the morning. There are lot of information sessions on the ship about the Glacier Bay.

The Bow of the ship is now …

Today was a day of scenic cruising in Glacier Bay.

This morning we got up early again to see whales. We were not disappointed. We saw seven humpback whales in the early morning (5 AM ish). The fog horn was blowing and about scared me out of my whits, because we were right up there by it. Not long after the captain came on the speaker and …

... will find is a very short blog entry as this event consisted largely of standing or sitting on the deck of the ship watching Glacier Bay National Park go by. We entered the National Park at 10am where a number of park rangers joined us on the ship, they ...

... of pictures of icebergs, sea lions, otters, mountains, and other glaciers. Eventually, we came within two miles of Harvard Glacier and slowly approached.  Our Captain has a reputation for getting his ship the closest to the glacier and he did a ...

... took a nap for awhile and then we went back outside to take some more pictures before the ship left Glacier Bay National Park. When our ship left the inlet and rejoined the Pacific Ocean the seas got very rough. My mom and I were heading to the buffet ...

A day on the ship in Glacier Bay. It started off wet and cold, with heavy cloud, but as the ship travelled further North into the bay the cloud thinned and the sun broke through.  It turned warm and sunny as we approached the head of the bay where ...

... :- 1.00am Transiting the Lynn Canal 6.25am Picked up Park Rangers at Bartlett Cove 10.00am 0.2nm off the face of Margerie Glacier 12.00nn 0.2nm off the face of John Hopkins Glacier ...

Glacier Bay. Today we entered Glacier Bay National Park which comprises 3.3 million acres of mountains, glaciers, forests and waterways. It is huge, it is nature and it is AWESOME! We spent about 6 hours in the park viewing 3 glaciers, a stayed about 1 ...

... our luggage and board the 4:00 shuttle for the airport.  Jim asked the driver to make a quick photo stop at the Glacier Bay National Park entrance sign. There were too many of us to fit on the small Wings of Alaska plane, so they used two ...

... going, with radar, for about four hours before the fog lifted.  We were on the 2nd day of our 3 day pass for Glacier Bay and were concerned we wouldn’t get to see everything  because of the fog. We called Bartlett Cove on VHF and asked ...

... . Wir haben von Skagway aus die Faehre nach Juneau und am naechsten Morgen diejenige nach Gustavus genommen und befinden uns im Glacier Bay Nationalpark. Hier gibt es ca 15 Meilen Strasse, eine Kreuzung, den General Store, Tankstelle, Flugplatz und zwei ...

We woke to a winter wonderland and then spent the day gazing at this bay of glaciers and icebergs. We were woken by our friendly porter delivering a special champagne breakfast. Not just a chilled bottle of champers, but an altogether exoitc ...