We spent the better part of the day on Friday with our ship slowly making its way into Glacier Bay National Park.  Once there, we visited several different glaciers.  They all have names.  We even pulled up in front of two different ones and sat for a couple of hours in front of each, watching and listening to them.  Some of the ice was just bright blue.  You would hear an occasional crack about every 20-30 minutes emanating from the glacier and we even saw three different occasions of “calving” going on…where small sections of ice break off and fall into the water.  These are called “bergy bits” or “growlers.”  It was very interesting, at least for the first hour.  I sure don’t mean to offend anyone by my words, but after a bit, glacier viewing sort of took on the feeling of standing there watching paint dry.  The activity was literally moving at a glacial pace.  At the last glacier we visited, there were hundreds of these bergy bits floating around with occasional harbor seal moms and their babies lying on top of the various ones.  That was pretty cool but we could only see this through our binoculars as we weren’t close enough for the camera I was using to be able to get any pictures.

We eventually left Glacier Bay National Park and began steaming towards our next stop and final destination, Seward Alaska.  For the next day and a half, we will be at sea cruising northward.  The farther north we go, the more light it seems to stay at night.  At around midnight Friday night, it was still light enough out that you could read a newspaper outside in the darkness.  Weird.