Everyone should go to Glacier Bay National Park at some
point during their lifetime. There isn't anything as awe inspiring as seeing glaciers.
Unless you're talking about listening
to a glacier pop and crack as it moves. And nothing as exciting as seeing it
calve and drop into the ocean.
Except seeing humpback whales in their natural habitat. We
ran into several pods as we left Glacier Bay today. Even more thrilling was to
finally capture whales breaching. In all the trips we've made to Alaska I've never
quite seen anything like these guys. Yeah, I kind of took a lot of pictures of them.
This last picture shows the part of just one of the pods of
whales plus the remnants of a breach. They leave quite a splash for sure.
(If you think an Alaska cruise is out of your reach, it isn’t.
We wouldn’t be doing this for the umpteenth time if it weren’t quite the
bargain. Seven days, food included. $299 a person plus taxes. Go on vacation
somewhere for a week or go on a cruise? It’s an obvious – you might even say financially
sensible -choice for us. The trick is the timing. We book our cruise late,
within a few weeks of the sail date, when they are trying to fill the ship and
prices are rock bottom.)