Alaska Cruise Trip Day 5 – The Dawes Glacier.
Thirty miles from the beginning of the Endicott Arm Fjord, we arrived at the Dawes Glacier.
Yes, the scenery was beautiful, but I was expecting something else. TV shows always show zoomed-in views of glaciers, highlighting their majestic size. But what my eyes showed me when we arrived was a Minnesota shopping mall parking lot at the end of March after a very snowy winter. Except the "snow" at the glacier wasn't dirty gray with shopping carts sticking out of it.
About the time I was thinking these thoughts, the ship narrator reminded us that we were still half a mile away from the glacier at this, our closest point in the journey. Our perspective was distorted. In actuality, that wall of blue glacier is over 600 feet tall and half a mile wide!
As the ship was slowly turning around to leave, we heard cracking noises from the glacier. One giant piece calved off, and my husband saw it just as it hit the water.
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