Today is 18th April, and the local time is 3.50pm. The UK is 9 hours ahead, Europe 8.
This has been the first real opportunity to bring the blog up to date. The postings so far have covered Kodiak and Seward. This one os for the 17th and 18th.
We have been viewing some spectacular scenery. Yesterday saw us in College Fjord, in glorious sunshine, viewing 8 small glaciers, and avoiding the big floating bits that had fallen off them. It is very dificult to put what we saw into words. We took lots of photographs, but even they do not do justice. The shore was tree lined, but everywhere covered in a lot of snow. Through in blue skies, a clod wind, the mountains and the glaciers, and the let your imagination run riot.
Today was a bit different, as it was one big glacier. 122 kms long, with a face of 10 kms, the Hubbard is quite special. It has its own bay, Icy Bay. The captain, aided by the pilots, took us to within about 100m of this monster. Apparently we could do this as the weather is still cold, and the face has not yet started to calve. We were there for about an hour, or until everyone on deck was nearly frozen. Then the ship turned away, and to warm us up, gave us Gluwine.
Now we are at sea to Skagway. We have been there before, in 1991, so will just be doing our own thing.
At present, there is a gale blowing, and the sea is a bit rough. This has made the production of these three blogs interesting, to say the least. It is possible that the odd typing error has crept through, but hopefully, readers, you can cope.