Well that was fast! And what great fun we've had!
Today was really a do-nothing day. We actually went down to breakfast, we packed, we settled up our account, we napped, we played Bingo, we worked on the balance of our beverage package, and we sailed through Prince William Sound and into College Fjord.
College fjord contains five tidewater glaciers (glaciers that terminate in water), five large valley glaciers, and dozens of smaller glaciers. It was discovered in 1899 during the Harriman Expedition, at which time the glaciers were named. The expedition included a Harvard and an Amherst professor, and they named many of the glaciers after elite colleges: Amherst, Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Harvard, Holyoke, Smith, Vassar, Wellesley, Williams, and Yale. According to Bruce Molina, author of Alaska's Glaciers, "They took great delight in ignoring Princeton."
Gigantic. Titanic. Amazing. Brooding. Misty. Mysterious. Ancient. Cold. (Damn! it's cold!)
Tomorrow we arrive in Whittier and take a bus into Anchorage where the third phase of this trip begins. Anchorage is all about doing laundry, mailing stuff home to lighten our load, and drinking Alaskan beer.
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