29 Glacier Cruise

I began work today at 8:15am, and the mosquitos were ready for work as well.  The Lead Intern, Kristin, and I began with working in the garden.  So after 3 layers of bug spray we were ready to go.  We planted a few rows of artichokes and cabbages.  At 10:30 I received a call from Kelly asking, " Do you wanna ride a boat?" 

"Um I have work today"

"No you don't I talked with Kristin, and we are sending some people on a boat cruise."

So I said my goodbyes to the mosquitos and quickly changed.  Half of the AWCC workers were going on the cruise today and the others are going tomorrow. 

The cruise was based out of Whittier.  Whittier is known as the weirdest town in Alaska.  There are only about 185 residents in the winter, and 85% of them live in the same building. 

The boat loaded up at noon.

They gave us lunch just as we were heading out.  It was a traditional baked alaskan cod with chips.  It was delicious. 

From left to right: Scott (intern), Meredith, Marcie, and Jeremy are gift store employes, and me :)

There where so many glaciers that we saw!  I guess there is a reason why the cruise is called 26 glaciers.

We even got to see the glacier calve twice.  This is when the glacier has ice break off; also known as icebergs.  When you see icebergs in the water they may not look as big.  However, only about 10% of the glacier is seen above the water. 

The waterfalls are from the ice at the top of the mountain that is melting.  There are a few pictures where itdoesn't even look like we are in Alaska.  It looks more like a winter in Hawaii. 

Later, they had signs the people could hold for pictures. We decided to hold 5 signs at the same time.

We saw this glacier actually calve 2 times!

We passed about 5 thousand sea gulls on this rock face.  They lay their eggs in the rocks which also hide them from predators such as Bald Eagles.  As we passed by later on we even spotted a bald eagle higher up on the mountain looking at the sea gulls. 

This clip is of the glacier calving.  What looks like a little waer fall is actually the end of the iceberg falling into the water from the glacier.