Glaciers

Alaska is well known for its glaciers.  Many of them are healthy, still growing in size, despite global warming.  We were fortunate to see one of the larger glaciers from the Zuiderdam.

We'll treasure the rare experience of getting close to massive glaciers in Glacier Bay National Park.

The shot above shows one small portion of a mile wide glacier.  It's taller than our ship at its face (about 15 stories high!)  The glacier was quite noisy, with loud cracking sounds being almost continuous.