We cruised into Yakutat Bay after breakfast and headed up towards Hubbard Glacier. This is the largest tidewater glacier in the North American continent because it begins some 76 miles upstream. At its face, it is about 100 m high and over 3 km wide!
With the chunks of ice and the smaller pieces floating in the sea, it was truly a taste of the Arctic even though we were still far from the Arctic circle!
The Alaskan daylight hours are long, today sunrise was at 4:18am and sunset will be 10:08pm. This is the northernmost point of our cruise itinerary. But I’m sure if the weather was gloomy, it wouldn’t feel like long daylight hours.
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- Arriving at Yakuktat.
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- Zoomed view of glacier.
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- Scenery at Yakutat.
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- Broken ice in the sea.
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- Scenery at Yakutat.
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- Close up of Glacier. “Calving” refers to chunks of ice breaking off the glacier.
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- Glacier at Yakutat.
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- Glacier at Yakutat.
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- Scenery at Yakutat.
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- Broken ice in the sea.
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- The Cruise Director says today is the best he has seen in 9 years.
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- At Yakutat.
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- Glacier at Yakutat.
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- At Yakutat.
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- View from the restaurant.
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- Leaving Yakutat for Juneau.
After dinner tonight, guests were treated to a dessert buffet. The ice sculptures on display, the chocolate art and also the chocolate fountains (both milk chocolate and white chocolate) were all pretty stunning.
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- Dessert extravaganza.
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- Ice sculptures. The face in the watermelon on the left is somewhat creepy.
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- Dessert extravaganza with chocolate fountain.
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- Dessert extravaganza.
