More Alaska

Mom called yesterday when the ship was in Skagway. It seems so odd to consider them so far away, and yet still in the U.S. (and having working cell phones!) From our conversation, I think it is obvious to me now that the first glacier picture below is the same glacier as the later ones. Apparently, the Captain went back and forth a few times. Of course, now that I look at them, the mountains in the background are the same.

Yesterday the bridge cam seemed to be stuck on the same photo all day.

Today they are docked in Juneau.

Glacier Bay

I'm addicted to this Pacific Princess bridge cam. They are about 3 hours behind us and after cruising most of the morning from College Fjord to Glacier Bay, we finally have some interesting views of Glaciers. Really fascinating!

This is the first one. Then they sailed past some mountainous landscape and now we're viewing this one.

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Looking at this last one makes me wonder how deep the water is at this point - and how deep is the glacier into the water. I read from the Glacier Bay National Park website about how glaciers are formed from snow over hundreds of years. Of course, I read all of this to the girls and were so not interested.


Here's where they are now - just past the last glacier. Isn't this beautiful. I wish I could watch this all night.

Bridge Cams

Mom & Dad are on a Princess cruise in Alaska this week. They left Whittier/Anchorage on Wednesday night and will return to Houston via Vancouver next week.

The ship has a bridge cam! So we've been keeping tabs on their surroundings. Yesterday morning you could see mountains, ice in the water, and what looked like ice/glacier on the land. Silly me didn't think about saving the picture until later, when the mountains were more in the distance.

This morning, it looks like they are still in some open sea, though it's only 6 a.m. there. I'll be checking later for more glaciers.