Daily Life

Day 221: Up Tracy Arm! Part 1

The next day of the cruise we headed up Tracy Arm, a 20 some mile long fjord up to Sawyer Glacier!

“What do you mean, inside down? Â It was the right way in the camera…”

It was a foggy morning. Â Apparently we missed a bunch of whales by not being up at 4:30am…althought the Dailylife Wife saw one briefly out our stateroom window.

It was a bit brisk, too.

There she blows! Â One, two, three, four, and a tail! Â (You can just see the first blow on the far right side…)

There’s another humpback!

(Click to enlarge!)

The terminal moraine of Sawyer Glacier, a couple hundred years ago…it retreated before Global Warming even started! Â How prescient! Â I think they dredged beside it…we went awfully close…

Better,,,

but still a lot of fog.

Here come the icebergs!

The bigger ones were very blue.

It comes from the ice being very dense without a lot of air bubbles in it.

The MS Amsterdam is a good sized ship. Â There were around 3000 passengers and crew.

So here we are winding our way up this relatively narrow fjord…

One of those special moving pictures! Â It looks a little better if you click on it to see it by itself.

There were other boats and ships too. Â The big ships mostly were in the afternoon.

I like this one. Â It is the right size for my runabout after my lottery ticket comes in! Â {!-{P

At long last, Sawyer Glacier!

Here is a bit better view. Â For some reason the Captain didn’t want to get into the icebergs…

So after he spun the ship around a few times (gotta love those bow trusters!) we headed back down Tracy Arm. Â They may close Tracy Arm to big ships in the next year or two, so we were lucky to get up here and see it in comfort.