We got on the boat just after 12:30pm. The boat left around 12:45pm. Just after leaving the dock, we were served lunch of salmon chowder. I thought the chowder was good.
Our seats were in the front of the boat. Lucky us!
Lots of greenery and waterfalls around Whittier
Lunch. It was good enough.
Our precise location in the world.
That tiny black dot is a black bear
It was a long tour, 5.5 hours. The boat took us to a few glaciers. We also saw several sea otters and even a black bear. The glaciers were neat to see. We were instructed to watch for break-offs, aka calvings. We saw a few, and Erik even got a video of one. We enjoyed the beautiful Alaskan scenery as the ship cruised over the water. Later we got a cookie, which wasn’t very good. Towards the very end of the cruise, we saw the kittiwake bird rookery, which was cool!
We headed toward Blackstone Glacier on the right.
Several crew members offered to take pictures for us.
Sea lions were lounging about on this little island.
Most of the glaciers we saw from afar in College Fjord.
A few sea otters were swimming around, but they hid underwater whenever we got close.
Harvard Glacier is over 2 miles wide. Its black stripes indicate that it is a combination of more than one glacier.
A small iceberg that came from Harvard Glacier
After the cruise we checked in our room at the Inn at Whittier, an old but pretty hotel. We ate dinner there in the restaurant too. Erik ordered the salmon & clam chowder and the salmon platter. I ordered the breaded cod with Caesar salad. The soup was really good, one of the better chowders we’ve tried. My food was sorta good, but Erik didn’t care too much for his salmon; he said it was too dry.
Beautiful scenery and spectacular icebergs as well as the quaint restaurant!
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