Today our ship sailed into Yakutat Bay. From there, we hopped from the ship and onto a smaller boat so that we could sail on up into Disenchantment Bay to see the Hubbard Glacier up close. The glacier was amazing. It is absolutely huge. It's hard to tell from the photos below, but the glacier walls are about 350 feet tall. We were lucky to see the wall "calving" several times. This is where large chunks of ice fall off of the glacier and into the sea. Finally, on the way back to our ship, we saw a bunch of sea lions hanging out on an island not far from the glacier.
We are really going to miss waking up to these beautiful views each morning.
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Here are a couple of icebergs floating away from the glacier. The icebergs are created when they fall off of the glacier in a process called calving.
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Oh, by the way, those icebergs are very tasty.
A view of the face of Hubbard Glacier.
The two of us with the Hubbard Glacier behind us.
A closer view of the compacted ice at the base of the glacier.
A close-up view of the ice towards the top of the glacier
Here's the calving in process. The spray at the middle of the picture is where a large chunk of ice fell into the water.
To get a sense of the size of the glacier wall, here's a shot of a rather large sailboat between us and the glacier.
Here's a herd of sea lions chilling on the rocks of a nearby island.
 Our ship sailing amongst some icebergs. Didn't they see the movie Titanic??? |  Approaching our ship after visiting the glacier |
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