Today is Petersburg day!! This is always a crowd favorite. Guests today had a plethora of choices for activities. From a forest/muskeg hike to a bike ride through and around town — some guests relaxed on the ship and then walked into town and explored. There were morning and afternoon choices, so you could do as much or as little as you would like. The weather was perfect — not too hot and not too cold, just right. Tonight was our crab feast, and what a feast it was! The crab was so fresh the meat just pulled right out of the shell. We closed the day being spoiled with a magical sunset of pinks and oranges — the sky looked like she was on fire. Lastly, we saw a small group of humpback whales spouting in the distance as we made our way toward tomorrow’s adventures.
7/14/2024
Read
National Geographic Venture
Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness
We started the day with Zodiac tours of South Sawyer Glacier, a tidewater glacier. The air was cool, and it rained throughout the day, but that made the waterfalls gush. The walls of the Tracy Arm were dark yet glistening, and blue icebergs recently calved from South Sawyer Glacier stood out. The sea water stood in contrast against the ice. The brown of the land flushing into the sea swirled with a rusty hue that turned out to be a zooplankton bloom. The misty afternoon was spent kayaking from the base of one of the waterfalls with icebergs in various forms carried by nearby currents. It all made for a fantastic backdrop with swallows swooping close to the output of the falls, arctic terns darting and calling above, harbor seals cautiously following along, and pigeon guillemots surfacing with a whole silvery fish in their bills. After such a fantastic day, we finished up by viewing numerous waterfalls cascading down the steep fjord walls and a look at Sawyer Glacier misted in fingerlike clouds. What a beautiful sight.
