Cruise to Alaska
June 30 to July 10, 2000
Page 7, The Sun Princess and
College Fjord

On our flight from Fairbanks to Anchorage we got our only
view of majestic Mt. McKinley (Denali) as it penetrated the clouds
over the Alaska Range.
Denali
Denali

The Sun Princess
The Sun Princess
(Postcard photo)

We finally boarded our cruise ship in Seward.
Lydia and Werner
From the deck of the Sun Princess in Seward, on Resurrection Bay


On the morning of the second day at sea we sailed into the
still waters of the College Fjord

Glaciers everywhere!


The face of a glacier...it really does look blue! If you're VERY, VERY quiet, you can hear the glacier crackling and popping as pieces of ice break off and fall into the sea and as pockets of compressed air, trapped for millennia, are suddenly and explosively released. The black, or dirty striations and layers of the glacier are dirt and rocks that have fallen on it and are being carried to the sea. This glacier is about one hundred feet thick.
(For those who care: The color is caused by the absorption of the longer (infrared) rays of light
by the ice, leaving only the blue rays visible. It is exactly the same phenomenon which makes the sky look blue--in case you ever wondered.)


Icebergs look smaller than they actually are since 70%, or more, of the ice is underwater!
 


Although we never got too close, way off in the distance, barely visible,
Sea Otters could be seen playing in the water

College Fjord
Leaving the quiet grandeur of College Fjord, the only ripples in the water are those created by the ship's own wake.


First full day aboard ship, hmmm, wonder where we could meet?
Got it! How about the BAR???
Adrienne, Denise, Jan, Lydia, Georgianna, Marianne, and Mary at the Atrium Lounge
The Girls
(except for Dottie and Camille, who 
were doing God-knows-what!)
 Sonny and Joe
The Boys
(except for the one taking all these 
great pictures!)
Go to:
  • Page 1, Anchorage
  • Page 2, Denali - The Lodge
  • Page 3, Inside Denali National Park
  • Page 4, Going to Fairbanks
  • Page 5, Ride the Discovery III
  • Page 6, The Chena Indian Village
  • Page 7, The Sun Princess and College Fjord
  • Page 8, Glacier Bay
  • Page 9, Skagway
  • Page 10, Juneau
  • Page 11, Ketchikan

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