Tracy Arm Fjord and Sawyer Glacier

The next day we got up at 5:30 AM because the ship was going to reach the entrance to Tracy Arm Fjord around 5:45 AM.  From then until 10 AM that morning the ship slowly made its way up the fjord to the Sawyer Glacier and back out again to the Inside Passage.  

The fjord was stunning in the morning sun.

The naturalist on board for the week narrated over the sound system anytime the ship passed though an area of interest, like the humpback whale feeding area and the fjord.  I liked her yellow hat.

I knew glaciers were big, but I had not realized just how big they really are.  It is so hard to tell in pictures.  They are really really really huge!  And just like people told me, the ancient, compressed ice is so BLUE!

I had a very hard time getting a sense of scale of the mountains and glaciers we were seeing.  Half-way out of Tracy Arm we passed another Princess ship that was identical to ours.  The ship is at least 17 stories above the water, and that helped me some.

This was our favorite pool - adults only, heated, and just down the steps from our favorite (and usually empty) hot tubs.