Alaska - The Glaciers Cruise

For another week’s cruise take The Glacier cruise. In order to see Alaska’s biggest and liveliest glaciers breaking the silence, cracking around you in the stillness of time, you’ll sail North from Seattle or Vancouver Seward or Whittier near Anchorage. In order to reach the open seas of the adventurous Gulf of Alaska to reach Yukutat Bay or Prince William Sound, you will sail through the more sheltered Inside Passage into Panhandle Ports then enter Yukutat Bay or Prince William Sound where there are many huge glaciers waiting.

There are thousands of glaciers that cover a small percent of Alaska’s surface. You can see them easily from a cruise ship from Juneau, Valdez, Whittier, Seward, Anchorage and the Matanuska Valley. Watch tidewater glaciers calve icebergs into the sea! The Columbia Glacier is one of the largest tidewater glaciers in the state. You can see it from ships leaving Valdez or Whittier. The Harding Ice field in Kenai Fiords National Park can be seen from a boat which leaves Seward’s small harbour.

The Gulf of Alaska is an arm of the Pacific Ocean by the Southern Coast of Alaska from the Alaska Peninsula in the West to the Alexander Archipelago in the East, where Glacier Bay and the Inside Passage are found. Alaska’s biggest glaciers are the Malaspina Glacier and the Bering Glacier which run onto the coastal plain along the Gulf of Alaska. The coast has deep inlets such as Prince William Sound and Cook Inlet which are the two largest areas of water.