Hubba, Hubba, Look at Hubbard Glacier!

Hubbard Glacier is huge (http://ak.water.usgs.gov/glaciology/hubbard/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubbard_Glacier)! And we got very close to it. This was the view from our table in the dining room when we were parked in front of Hubbard Glacier for dinner. To ensure that all passengers got a chance to see Hubbard up close and personal, the captain parked the ship, then rotated the ship around slowly so that we could all get a 360-degree view of the area. Wow.

We even froze our bum(!) off standing outside to listen for the crashing sound of ice breaking off (a process called calving). While we did not get pictures of the calving (very dramatic!), there are many available on the internet (http://images.google.com/images?q=calving%20ice&hl=en&lr=&rls=RNWE,RNWE:2005-36,RNWE:en&sa=N&tab=wi).