Cruising the Endicott Arm

Endicott Arm.

Wednesday June 6. Today is a cruising day and begins with some rolling seas as we have breakfast and listen to some lectures on the history and marine mammals of Alaska.  

Dawes glacier 

Later in the afternoon as the seas calm and the weather is very nice the ship starts down a special place, the Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness. It contains 653,179 acres and consists of two deep and narrow fjords: Tracy Arm and Endicott Arm. Both fjords are over 30 miles long and one-fifth of their area is covered in ice. We go down the Endicott arm with considerable floating ice ranging from hand-sized to very large pieces. We encounter Dawes glacier which blocks the rest of the fjord. During the most recent glaciated period, both fjords were filled with active glaciers.

As the ship turns around we have a direct view of the glacier from deck of our room.  We enjoy a glass of wine as we watch the ship pull away from the glacier.  Our food and wine dinner was hosted tonight by Geyser Peak's wine maker.