Glacier Bay - September 1st

Ron and I are starting to get into the cruise….we slept late and sauntered up to the feeding station. Today the ship took us to Glacier Bay which is just as I expected…beautiful. The bay was calm but it is getting colder and wetter as we travel. The Madeline Glacier was really pretty and I watched chunks fall into the bay with a big boom. This trip is pretty sedate onboard. No parties, drunken kids (although the adults are doing pretty well). The demographics are a bit older than Ron and I with only a sprinkling of people in their 40’s and 30’s. I have seen only about five children on board and about three teens with their mothers. I assumed they were teens because they were rolling their eyes at mom when she was talking about the views from the ship. I am assuming that there was a younger crowd earlier in the year. However, the ship is ours after 9:00 pm and we are taking naps to be able to stay up : ) Well, maybe I am a part of the demographics because I found myself taking pictures of some of the food. The salmon, whitefish, and trout are very yummy and I am trying all sorts of foods that I wouldn’t at home, mainly due to access and cost.
Tonight we are meeting a couple who we befriended on our first day or two and going to a show. Ron is chomping at the bit to get to the casino because it was closed all day for Glacier Bay. I think it was because we moved to the interior and gambling is illegal. His little face just fell, and he took to his bed, poor guy. Well, I have to go…nap time.

While at Glacier Bay I saw two calvings (ice falling from the glacier and into the water).  Even though it did not look like a huge break-off of ice, the sound was like a sonic boom. Unfortunately, the pictures are not able to really show the event.