Seward II (Glacier tour)

Today we took a tour of the glaciers in the Kenai National Park via tour boat. It was a long tour of about 9 hours, but enjoyable and comfortable. We saw many different types of Puffins which can dive several hundred feet underwater to catch fish, otters, seal lions, whales and a lone black bear.

I ate some glacier ice. If you think that statement was random, so was eating glacier ice. It didn't taste like anything abnormal.

The glacier pictured is about 700' high and we drove within 1/2 mile to watch is "calve" into the water. When pieces would fall it sounded like thunder and huge pieces the size of cars would fall into the water. It was gorgeous, very cold and simply amazing to see nature at work. The dark line you will see in the picture is the last volcanic eruption from who knows when.

One item I have failed to mention is that we are still celebrating Dad's birthday. Most restuarants have given him free cake and today the ships crew sang "Happy Birthday"

Enjoy the pictures, tomorrow Ketchikan!