We cruised aboard the Adventure Bound along with its sister ship the Captain Cook (pictured), traveling 40 miles south of Juneau into the fjord, passing beautiful waterfalls and amazing blue icebergs along the way. It was a cloudy, overcast day but that just made the whole landscape even more dramatic.
The further into the arm we got, the more the giant icebergs were joined by small pieces of ice from significant calving taking place at the glacier. It was beautiful but the made the trip slow going as the captain expertly steered us clear of any pieces too large to bounce off the boat. The iceberg you see above the water is about 15% of the total size of the iceberg; most of it is below the surface.
Oh, the wildlife we saw along the way! Magnificent! In the video, you can hear the ice thumping off the hull of the boat. And while it was slow going, the advantage was it provided lots of nice resting places for seals and their pups. Some stayed put and just checked us out; others, like the two in this video, popped back into the water.
Seals, brown bears and black bears, oh my!
And then, of course, there's the glacier itself. We spent time just drifting and listening to the sounds of the South Sawyer Glacier. Just breathtaking.
Such intense coloring.
It made for a long day but so worth the trip. I can't remember the last time the girls fell asleep for a nap but I suspect the lull of the boat was just too much to resist.
A rainbow for our journey back to Juneau.
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