Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska
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There is no going ashore here. You do not need to. The ship moves through the bay slowly, and the silence — broken only by the deep, percussive crack of calving ice — is part of the experience. Margerie Glacier fills the horizon at the head of the bay, a wall of fractured blue-white ice two hundred feet high and a mile wide. Humpback whales surface in the channels, exhaling in slow columns of mist. Harbor seals haul out on drifting ice floes, fur pressed together for warmth, utterly indifferent to the ship passing thirty yards away. Brown bears move along the shoreline brush. Puffins zip low across the water. The whole bay feels like the world before people arrived — ancient, unhurried, enormous. Be on deck from the moment you enter. All of it is the
Located in Southeast Alaska, west of the capital city of Juneau, Glacier Bay is a beautiful National Park full of snow capped mountains, tidewater glaciers and wildlife. Experience wildlife in all its beauty from boat trips for whale watching and hiking through the trails of the Park. It is a protected area full of wonder to be explored.
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May 5 6:00AM AKDT
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May 5 2:30PM AKDT