Glaciers...

Ship's wifi is spotty bu I will be posting pictures soon of the glaciers we saw.

People overuse words and the English language is ill equipped to handle the details of the amazing sights we saw yesterday and today. At least my grasp on the English language is. Maybe there are some cunning linguists out there that could describe beauty better than I.

The Hubbard Glacier is just about the most awesome thing I have ever seen. Period. It is an active advancing glacier which means it's moving and getting bigger. Active is a small word for what this glacier actually does. Chunks of ice fall from the face of this glacier every few minutes. The small chunks were probably falling about 50 feet and were the size of buses. The bigger falls were more the size of a building. Possibly bigger. We were really fortunate that we could get so close. The naturalist they have on board told us that the last trip here the ice was to thick even for a cruise ship and they could get no closer than 5 miles. Yesterday we were a mile and a half away and the only ship in the inlet. The sound it makes is like thunder. Even the small ice falls were unbelievably loud.

Pictures soon I swear, but the pictures will not even come close to expressing what we saw. We have video too but can't upload here have to wait till we get home. I'll post those when we return.