Kenai Fjord part 2

Ice, and lots of it, from large chunks the size of cars to smaller human being size were floating and clanging against the hull of the boat. We saw these crazy kayakers floating around with the ice. Then we saw their tents up! I call this extreme kayaking. These kayakers have to get dropped off by water taxi and get picked up at a later time. I like adventure but I am not to sure this is it. We approached the glacier, but still a distance away, you could  hear the groans coming from deep inside of him.  Then cracking and a loud pow, like a cannon was fired, just prior to the glacier calving.       What a wave that dropping ice created. The Capt shut down the engines and then you really could hear that the glacier had a lot to say. The moans, cracking, and creaking were loud, some sounded like they were coming from the surface and others sounded so deep they sounded as if they could be coming from the other side. Kind of eerie, kind of nice. Even in the rain it is spectacular to see. And the blue, that glacier blue.   It’s a color you cannot describe just as you cannot describe the fire of a sunset.  On the way back we saw more critters, another eagle,  seals sun bathing.   The scenery was breath taking with these mountains jutting out of the sea and the huge boulders just placed here and there.    This glacier cruse was one of the highlights of our trip for me. And to top it off, just before we pulled into port, the crew baked fresh chocolate chip cookies.                   Nice touch!