The next morning we were going north along the coast of Alaska headed for the Hubbard glazier. The captain had promised that we would be there by 1pm and good to his word we got there on time. It was again a beautiful day with the sun shining. The captain pulled the ship into the bay and about a quarter mile from where the glacier met the sea.

A picture of this glacier can be seen at:

http://www.susanmilne.com/glacier/glacier.htm#hub

The ship nose was pointing to the glacier and the whole bay was filled with floating ice pieces. The captain then opened the helicopter pad on the ship bow for passengers to get as close to the ice as possible. It was quite a strange impression to be sitting looking the glacier and to see fairly large chunks of ice floating along the ship side. I was told that ship hull had been reinforced to allow such trips. We spent 4.5 hours sitting in the ice field. At one point, we saw a harbor seal sitting on one of the ice flows sunning himself. It was really a wonderful experience.

We then turned around and headed for our last Alaska stop in ICY strait.