First thing in the morning I looked out the balcony and saw whales in the distance. Probably about 6 or more with their tails, or as they call it flutes, in the air, blowholes spouting and even a few jumps thrown in.
It was surreal to hear them in the distance spouting.
They do have a naturalist and park ranger on board who will give you lot of information and point out highlights along the way. At one point she spotted a bald eagle on an iceberg and if you can imagine in your head a cartoon where everyone runs to the side of the ship (to see what appears to be a small eagle because we are so high up) and the ship listing because everyone ran over so quickly it was almost a little comical image inside of my head.
Fun Fact #2. Why does the ice look blue? When light hits highly compacted ice, long wavelength colors (reds) are absorbed, while short wavelength colors (blues) reflect back through the ice to your eyes.
With all the glacier viewing we didn't make it to lunch in time so decided to eat at the "International Cafe" for their Mozarella Pannini's and grilled vegetable salads. While sitting in the Piazza drinking caramel lattes they set up a ring toss and if you could toss the ring over the champagne bottle you would win it. Some people must of really wanted it because they came around about three timesp and it was a pretty big line. After awhile she kept moving the bottles closer just so someone could win them.
Now if it was a wine bottle I might of gotten in line.
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