We spent much of the morning in Glacier Bay up in the Spinnaker Lounge doing more wildlife watching, card playing, and relaxing before the ship actually got to the glaciers.
On the way up to the glaciers, there was one humpback whale that kept slapping his tail on the water, over and over again (Elise claims that it slapped the water 48 times). Unfortunately Malinda and Abby didn't see it because they had gone down to the room to get some stuff. Later, while I was making a trip to the room, I looked out our room window and saw a whale raise its tail out of the water only a couple hundred feet from the ship.
Lots of wildlife to see including these mountain goats.
We made it to the end of the channel where the Grand Pacific Glacier and the Margerie Glacier almost meet. The Margerie Glacier was way cooler due to the fact that it is an advancing glacier, and we got to see some great calving action for the hour or so that the boat spun around in circles right in front of the glacier. The sound from the calving chunks of ice was pretty amazing.
Just barely caught the end of this big splash!
On the way back out of Glacier Bay, another humpback did some acrobatics for us, and was nice enough to do it several times. We took this photo from the Spinnaker Lounge looking back behind the ship.
A group of sea lions near the front of the ship.
After so many hours of glacier and wildlife watching, the kids were ready to relax a bit in the hot tub.
After an early dinner in the Garden Cafe, we went to the evening show, a juggler names Charles Peachock. It was amazing all of the stuff that he could do, and even more amazing that he could do it all on a swaying ship.
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