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Alaska Day Cruises

If there is one thing that you’ll remember about almost any Alaska cruise, it will most certainly be the endless glaciers Alaska has to offer.

 In Southeast Alaska, maritime climate and coastal mountains work together to create favorable conditions for glaciation. The icefields straddle the Coast Mountain Range on the United States-Canadian border, directly in the path of the Pacific Ocean's prevailing winds. Moist air flows toward the mountains, rises, cools, and releases snow and rain. Annual snowfall on the Juneau Icefield exceeds 100 feet, and mild Southeast summers assure that winter snow accumulation exceeds summer snowmelt at higher elevations.

Southeast Alaska has many active glaciers that calve daily when giant pieces of ice crack off the head of the glacier and fall into the sea. Tidewater glaciers that end in deep water can also calve from under the water, shooting huge pieces of ice like missiles up through the surface to fall back with mighty splashes. The image of slow, imperceptible glacial movement is now replaced by the sounds of the thundering ice bergs cracking and falling into the sea. The freshly-calved bergs are often a sparkling deep blue and assume fantastic shapes as they slowly drift with the currents or beach themselves on outgoing tides. All this makes tidewater glacier watching a popular tourist attraction by sea or air.

In Alaska Day Cruises

Leading Day cruises are available in Southcentral Alaska from Whittier, Seward and Valdez. Check out Stan Stephans Glacier Tours, Phillips 26 glacier cruise, Kenai Fjords tours, or Grey Line of Alaska. Each of these providers offer a first class experience.

Explore Alaska's coastal towns and experience the refreshing, untouched, glacial valleys and mountain ranges only Alaska can offer. See whales, sea lion, otters, puffin, bear, sheep, mountain goat, along with countless species of other sea birds.

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