One of the biggest plus of doing a cruise to Alaska is the chance to get close to glaciers. Well, in glacier bay, there are many glaciers next to each others. I still did not get how it is possible that, while most of them are retracting, a few of them manage to grow. But yet, who understands the climate...
The most impressive about being close to the glacier is not the cold, not the size, not the color, but that it is alive: it moves and it makes sounds, cracking sounds. Yet this movement is rather slow: it takes around 400 years for the ice to travel from the top of the glacier all the way down to the bay.
A bit further is the Hubbard Glacier. The cruise ship does not get to close, as mini icebergs get bigger and bigger the closer we get.
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