A 9 hours
cruise to Columbia glacier and Mears glacier $155 per person.
Today turned
out gorgeous, a nice 70 degrees or so.
We went on some short hikes but you really don’t need to go anywhere to
see beautiful scenery or waterfalls here.
You can be anywhere in Valdez and see picture post card views in any
direction. It doesn’t seem real. Looks like a painting. A chain of snow covered mountains all around
and many glaciers. We love to sit
outside on the back side of our RV overlooking the harbor in the evening and
watched the boats come in. After dinner
we walk around the harbor and see what the fishermen’s daily catch is. Unfortunately we got off without our camera tonight
and missed some great photo opportunities.
Someone caught a huge 100 pound halibut.
They hung it up and it was as big as the man that caught it. Incredible! The other great thing we missed; there is a
large fish cleaning station where several men were cleaning fish, discarding
the guts and carcasses on a ramp that angled down to the water. Every once in a while they spray water on the
ramp to flush all this stuff down. When
there are fish remains on the ramp a lot of sea birds fly down and have
themselves a real good feast. This particular
night a large eagle came down to feast!!!!
It was an amazing sight, we couldn’t believe our eyes. Just 12 feet from us this eagle came down
right on top of a fish carcass, standing on it with his big claws and pecked at
it for a long time. By the way, when he
arrived all the other sea birds moved out of his way!! Quickly!!
At one point someone threw a large fish carcass on the ramp and scared
the eagle off. In a few minutes he
returned to finish his meal then flew away again. We were just sick we could not take a
picture!!!! We’ll most likely never be
this close to an Eagle in the wild again.
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