We woke up to partly sunny skies! We called the Stan Stephens office and made a reservation for their longest cruise -- 10 am to 7ish pm. The boat was only half full so we had a nice table all to ourselves. The cruise was great -- we saw sea otters, harbor seals, 200 or so stellar sea lions, both kinds of puffins, 3 humpback whales, marbled murrelet, pigeon guillemont, murre, cormorant, great blue heron, arctic tern, black bear, and bald eagles, one of which got a fish and was eating it in front of us. They served a great lunch and around 5 they had a bowl of clam chowder for us. We went to the Columbia Glacier. You can't get very close to this one because of all the icebergs it generates as it recedes. I held a piece of glacier ice that the crew netted and brought on board. We also went to the Meares Glacier and stopped really close to the edge. You could hear the crackling of the ice and it would calve off in front of you. This created a loud noise and splash. This glacier is advancing, one of the few that is. There were a lot of harbor seals laying on the icebergs in front of the glacier. We got back at a quarter till eight -- it was a 9 hr 45 minute cruise. We had a coupon for the shorter cruise (buy one get one free) and they let us use it for the longer cruise. Very nice of them. We have been on Prince William Sound three times now and then scenery in the different areas is always beautiful. The last time we took the 27 glacier tour out of Whittier and saw different glaciers and we rode the ferry from Whittier to Valdez which went by a different route.
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