The most amazing day at sea was the cruise through Tarr inlet to view the Glacier Bay National Park and Reserve which contains over a thousand glaciers. What a magnificent day just sitting watching nature in all her glory, the icebergs drifting past, the rugged cliffs of ice, the snow capped mountains. Unfortunately the whales and bears were always on the other side of the ship to us but we were lucky enough to see the glacier calving into the bay. (That’s  glacier speak for a chunk of ice breaking off and falling into the water)  You could hear the oohs and aahs along the balconies!

Glacier Bay was almost entirely covered by one tidewater glacier around 1750 but began to retreat, by 1879 it had retreated almost all the way up the bay, a distance of around 77kms. Some glaciers in the park are still retreating while others are stable.