Alaska Trip Day 9 Hubbard Glacier: Splash,Crack, and Roar!!!

Day 9

Hubbard Glacier

Hubbard Glacier was something else. It is awe inspiring. I woke up early and dressed warmly. My parents were not brave enough to head out yet so I went alone. It was hard to decide where to go. I ended up on the 12th floor or about. It was crazy; people were everywhere. Some great photos await the early and the prepared. Dress warmly, you will be out here for awhile. The best place will be the front of the ship but you will want to move around some. The front is the best place until the ship gets to where it will stay for the day. I was very fortunate to see and capture some calving.        

To the left is an example of this. After the glacier calves a rumbling sound can be heard that is best described as thunder though that is not fully accurate but there is nothing else to compare it to. I was very lucky to get the photos I got. It takes luck and fast reacting to catch

the calving in process. There were also two bears that made an appearance but they were really far off and barely visible on the grassy mountain sides leading up to the glacier. An interesting fact is that the glacier is in the US and the mountains are in Canada. 

A little bit of advice. If you are thinking "I will go and look around then you meet me on the deck somewhere" good luck as you can see from the following pictures it gets pretty packed. So if you are with a group, set up a meeting place and time to

reunite with the rest of your party. my Mom actually paged me because of an active imagination. she thought for sure that I had fallen overboard because we could not find each other. We kept missing each other. Eventually every thing worked out and now it is just an interesting story.

So as this chapter closes on another wonderful adventure in our Alaska story the sea journey is coming to a close but the land tour is just beginning and yet a few more adventures need to be told so stick with me through this.  

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