Up at 5:30 for a 7am departure for a 5 hour cruise up Tracy Arm to visit Sawyer Glacier. The passage is too tight for the Mariner, so they arranged a catamaran to ferry 120 of us up the ice filled fjord with a naturalist narrating. We saw more eagles than we could count, a mother seal and cub, dozens of 4-5000 ft waterfalls and my first whale sighting.
The cat was so agile we could back so close into the waterfalls that the water landed on our decksbow and they 'fished' out chunks of the calved ice to show us its density and clarity. The deep blue color of freshly calved bergs is hard to describe or capture.
While we cruised the Arm, our ship continued to Juneau. We joined it early afternoon.
Did you use glacier ice in your drinks?
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