Valdez Glacier/Wildlife Cruise

Stan . . .

We boarded the Spirit of Valdez and departed for our Glacier/Wildlife cruise promptly at 10:00 AM and enjoyed a thoroughly enjoyable day at sea returning to the Valdez Small Boat Harbor around 7:15 PM.  The wildlife we were able to see and the views of the Columbia Glacier & Ice Field as well as being able to get very close to the face of the Meares Glacier will provide us with lasting memories which we will cherish forever.

Some of the wildlife/sealife we were able to see up close on our Glacier cruise.  The sea otters in the above picture were enjoying a leisure swim when we were able to cruise up along side them.

The eagle was sitting in the treetop along the shoreline that we were able to cruise up close to as the average depth of Prince William Sound is 800 feet.

This sea lion was resting on one of the buoys out in Prince William Sound that the oil tankers use to chart their way into the Port of Valdez.

These sea lions were sunning themselves on a sunny southern exposure shoreline along the western side of Prince William Sound