As I said the other day we booked a glacier/nature cruise for today based on the fact that today's weather was forecast to be the lowest chance of showers. We'll it worked out that way and we only had a few showers later in the day on the way back from the cruise. We didn't need our bikes as the cruise has a bus trip out to the boat which leaves out of Whittier which is about 60 miles from Anchorage. To get to Whittier you must go through a 2.5 mile tunnel which is the only way to drive in or out of there. This tunnel is a single lane with train tracks down the middle and traffic alternates in each direction every 15 minutes but varies if a train needs to come through. Whittier is a fishing port as well as a cruise ship port for cruises beginning and ending in Alaska. Today's pics are from the boat. I was in the right place at the right time as the top pic is of a chunk of the glacier as it's breaking off into the water (I was zoomed in on another spot when I heard the noise of the chunk breaking off and moved to catch the pic) and the next pic is a shot of what it looked like after (bottom middle of the pic is the pile of ice that broke off) along with some sea otters playing on the icebergs. That's it for today.
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