Glacier Bay

We entered Glacier Bay National Park this morning and spent the whole day travelling through this jewel of the park system. The glacier that created the bay has retreated some 65 miles in the past 200 years. We had the chance to see a few of the tributary glaciers to the main glacier, including Johns Hopkin's and the ice seen here from Lamplugh. This ice is very blue in spots due to the thickness and density of the ice. The towers of ice were very dramatic, as was the calving, which is when ice falls into the awaiting sea only to be quickly melted and become a part of the ocean water. Other highlights were humpback whales, eagles, black and brown bears, as well as two moose that decided to take a swim across one of the wider parts of the southern bay. The day ended with a closer look at a moose feeding in the grass near the Glacier Bay lodge.