We woke up early this morning and the ship was pitching and rolling quite a bit. A while later the captain made a broadcast saying that there was a small technical problem. It seems that the waste water system was misbehaving and we had too much you know what in the tanks. The solution was to head out of the calm waters of the inside passage and head out into the Pacific Ocean before pulling the big flush lever!
This little manoeuvre cost us about 4 hours, but luckily there is plenty of daylight up here so we we could still complete the scheduled trips.
Unfortunately, after a pleasant day yesterday we wer back to low clouds and rain/drizzle. We were late down for breakfast, but managed to grab a window seat so we sat there for a while hoping to see some whales. I was lucky and just managed to see the classic view of a whale diving with its tail out of the water, unfortunately Lyn missed it. We saw a number of sea otters and also some porpoises, so all was not lost.
After our walk yesterday we decided we needed to keep up the good work, but it was too wet to use the outdoor walking track. Instead we walked around one of the lower decks 5.5 times which gave us a one mile walk.
We spent a vet lazy morning, popping outside in between showers, and we both managed to see a whale as well. Lunch was a crowded affair as a lot of people were sitting inside for their sight-seeing, luckily we spotted a couple of Australian women we knew so we had a good meal.
In the afternoon we cruised up into the Glacier Bay National Park to view the glaciers that exist there. One of them, the Margerie glacier is different from about 95% of the worlds glaciers in that it is not receding. We were lucky while we there as there wer two calvings. Calving is when chunks of the glacier break off and drop into the water.
Marjerie Glacier with Crushed Rock Patterns
Marjerie Glacier.
As we returned from the Margerie glacier the sun graced us with its presence as we visited the Johns Hopkins glacier.
On our way back out we passes the Lamplugh Glacier, which head a bright blue patch in the centre. This is evidence that there was a recent large calving from the glacier.
