Day 48 - Wet One; Rod

We're in Reid Inlet tonight - the northernmost anchorage of the trip and the first time we've anchored in a bay with a glacier spilling into it. There are fresh sections of blue ice on the end of the glacier where it appears to have calved recently, but it seems pretty stable otherwise. We'd dinghy over and take a closer look, but it is pouring outside and no one is very motivated to venture out into it and leave this warm, cozy cabin. We'd have to climb back into already wet rain gear and, what the heck, it looks impressive enough from here.

It was a beautiful day today with spectacular mountain-marine scenery. Glacier Bay is 65 miles or so long, so to get up to the head of the bay where the better glaciers are, we have to put some miles under the hull. The wind blew pretty hard and the rain drove into our faces the whole way. It's been a long, wet, blustery, grim kind of day; scenery notwithstanding. We did see puffins; that was pretty cool.

And we're well positioned to hit the best glaciers tomorrow and see some calving. It'll be a long day tomorrow too. We're just hoping the weather improves.

Dodging Cruise ships; Photo by Vi