Our favorite thing - the glaciers.

All of us on the trip (there were 10 of us) agreed that seeing the glaciers, hearing them breaking off and seeing them fall into the bay, was probably the highlight of the trip. One day we cruised Glacier Bay and another day we cruised College Fjord where many glaciers bear the names of major colleges. The ship spent a fair amount of time broadside to the huge Harvard glacier. It was 3 1/2 miles wide and 200 feet high. Here Wally is on our balcony looking for seals, otters and whales as we were nearing the glaciers. . We saw seals and otters and only one quick sighting of a whale.

This is college fjord. Those white "rivers of snow" are glaciers that end into the fjord.

This is the grand Harvard glacier. It is hard to comprehend the size; we felt like we were right up near it - until we realized how long it took just for the sound to reach us after we saw the glacier "calve" - and note the boat in the water there - it was not a small boat and perhaps it can help you understand the size of this glacier. It was much wider then this picture - this photo perhaps captures 1/3 of the width of the glacier.

Here we went out on deck to view the glacier.

If you look closely you can see some of the ice streaming into the water. Even that little bit made a loud sound. But when larger chunks broke off and fell, it was amazing! We saw that and you could hear everyone watching ohhh and ahhh in awe. The falling ice would also send out significant waves on the water.