Norwegian Cruise Lines is one of five cruise companies permitted to sail in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve (next year there will be seven). Apparently earlier in the morning, National Park Rangers boarded the ship and have set up shop in the Spinnaker Lounge. Ranger Matt must have been up on the bridge as his commentary came over the public address system. Glaciers 101 in easy to understand language with humor, and sights being pointed out. There was a major plug for protecting our natural resources, i.e., doing something about climate change.
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| Reid Glacier |
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| Reid Glacier to L and a tour boat to R |
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| Looking up Johns Hopkins Inlet |
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| Grand Pacific Glacier far ahead |
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| Alpine glaciers end up still in the mountains |
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| Starting to see ice chunks and change in color with new water flowing from the glacier into the bay |
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| First view of Margerie Glacier, a tidal glacier that comes all the way to the sea |
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| Margerie Glacier panorama; it is about one mile wide and 250 feet high above water and 100 feet deep below water; occasionally chunks of ice would slide down the face to splash in the water with a thundering sound; however, some of the thundering may have been cracking within the glacier |
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| Closer-up of the face of the glacier |
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| Selfie at Margerie Glacier |
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| Dylan and Pete have a pool break |
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| Lamplugh Glacier |
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| Heading up Johns Hopkins Inlet |
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| Johns Hopkins Inlet with Johns Hopkins Glacier at the end |
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| Pool break for Dylan, Erich, and Pete |
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| Striped boys, Pete and Dylan (KSS) |
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| Glacier Bay |
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| Heading out of Glacier Bay |
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| Brown bits at water's edge on L are Steller Sea Lions |
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| Erich, Pete, and Dylan at shuffleboard |
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