John Hopkins Inlet and Glacier

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Bundled up for glacier viewing! It was raining so we had to find a viewing window to enjoy the show!

Here we saw the glacier calving, had the crack of ice hit our ears and watched the ice chunks splash down to become playgrounds for the seals.
 
This late in the season, the seals are done calving and the pups are old enough to be around ships without getting squashed so cruise ships are allowed deeper inside the park than other months. The John Hopkins Glacier is the only one in the park currently gaining in size rather than receding into the mountain.
 They really are this blue.
 
 

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