Glacier Bay
By Allan Brown:
Today was a day at sea as they say with no port of call other than cruising around Glacier Bay. That in of itself was a port of call.
We cruised up the fjord as the temperature got colder and the fog was hanging over the shore. Eventually little chunks of ice appeared in the water floating by like pieces of a styrofoam cooler. Ice! Ice in the water! We approached the glacier as the chunks of styrofoam increased in size big enough to park a car on. How cool, or how cold.
The glacier is a bit of an optical illusion at first glance. It doesn’t seem real, it’s too big and our selfies looked like they had been photoshopped with the automatic exposure setting on the camera freaking out over the glare. Another couple was having the same issue and we traded photo duties to get better shots of each other.
About that time the ship’s photographer came around to our deck. It was the one photo we purchased from the cruise and it looks fake. Interestingly one of the photo backdrops that the ship used to take photos looks about the same.
We decided to take some video to capture the ice in the water and then panning around to the glacier. That worked better.
US Americans pronounce glacier with a long vowel on the “a”, the Brits use a short vowel on the “a” that comes out like ” glassier ” that definitely sounds more classy.
The ship thankfully comes to a full stop at a safe distance and we were lucky enough to see a calving of ice, or a big chunk of ice falling off. The ship then slowly rotates around for all passengers to get a good view and selfie. It’s cold outside and after an hour we headed back in to join the rush to buy coffee. The clerk even mentioned that everyone seemed to be buying coffee.
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