Glacier Bay, Alaska, USA

We were woken by the cruise director over the speakers to tell us we had reached Glacier Bay. When we looked outside we were floating through and iceberg filled fjord lined with snow capped mountains. When we looked closer we could see hundreds of otters which were rafted together and floating on their back. They were so cute! Then we saw a little puffin with a big orange beak!

We floated past a number of impressive glaciers before we reached Margarite Glacier, which is a huge, 60 meter high tide water glacier. We spent one hour watching the glacier but unfortunately we never saw a calving (when a chunk of the glacier falls off). Our next stop was John Hopkins glacier, named after the university where it was studied. This glacier had distinctive stripes, making it look dirty. But this was simply where the glacier had collected sediment as it moved forward every year.

We turned around at the end of John Hopkins Bay and headed out of Glacier Bay. On our way out we managed to glimpse an orca in the distance. We saw it’s water spout and dorsal fin so we were sure it was an orca!Read more