Early one morning of the cruise, the ship traveled up a narrow channel to see Dawe’s Glacier which was at the end of the channel. The glacier is an ancient accumulation of compacted ice. As glaciers slowly flow, they carve out valleys and also carry huge boulders with them. We passed chunks of deep blue ice which is characteristic of glaciers due to the trapped and compacted gases that absorb red light. The blue light is transmitted and makes the ice blue. When we arrived at the glacier, the Captain was able to turn the boat 360 degrees so we all got a good look at the glacier and some pretty waterfalls near the glacier. It was cold and wet which was not unexpected, but the sun did not shine much, so the pictures of the glacier were not very clear. Finally, we were hoping to see some “calving” where huge chunks of ice crack off of the glacier with an impressive thundering boom, but no luck there. All in all, however, it was strange and beautiful to see.