New to us Glaciers

Endicot Arm 

This is our seventh cruise in Alaska and today we viewed a new to us glacier field. 

As we were heading in we saw the Discovery Princess exiting the arm.

The Grand proceeded slowly allowing us to enjoy the amazing views. One of the rangers described what we were seeing. The fact that the rounded hills were the ones that were under the glaciers at one time and the few sharp pointed ones were not. It is so hard to realize that the ice was hundreds of feet deep at one time.

As we got closer to the end of the inlet there were lots of burger bits floating in the water. Some were very large. The captain chose not to go too close with an abundance of caution. The glacier had calved recently and the captain did a complete turn so we all could get a vier of the glacier and the amazing waterfall. We could hear the rushing waters.

Tonight was the Captain Circle reception. We dressed for dinner and guickly arrived at the Vista Lounge only to discover that we were an hour early. They were still playing Bingo.

As we walked around we met Gary and Debbie and asked them to take our picture. We had not yet had a photo. A big change from that first cruise when we had several pictures taken.

Finally it was time to go to the reception. As usually there was a band and flowersand rum punches  and a long receiving line of officers. The captain was in attendance and he spoke .

We were given these figures

Blue medalions........388

Gold........................240

Ruby......................175

Platinum..................418

Elite........................351

Most days with Princess.....965

second most days..............845

Third most travelled passenger 765.

The reception was at 5 and our dinner is at five so as soon as the reception was over we headed to the dining room. We arrived at 5:30 so we still had lots of time to enjoy our dinner with our new friends.

Tomottow we are in Kefchikan.