on 14th June, 2018, we took the 26 Glacier Cruise, where we travelled 140 miles in five hours abroad the M/V Klondike Express in the sea to Egg rock also known as Perry Island in Port Wells. To reach here we had to travel one and a half hour through road and pass through the Anton Anderson Memorial rail road Tunnel, constructed during the second World War and is in between the Maynard Mountain. This is one of the longest rail and road Tunnel in North America and is 2.5miles long and it took us exact seven minutes by road to cross this. The ship voyage took us through wilderness, pristine waters and on the way we could see, sea- otters, many varieties of birds, seals, owls. We were not lucky enough to spot a whale, which other cruises had seen earlier. What we were were lucky in , was that this cruise could never go to Mount Howard Glacier and their last trip was in 2009,for this area is always covered with fog, rain, sleet, icebergs, and the ships never ventured here, but we could go to this glacier though we were at a distance of six miles from it and we could see the ice burgs, the melting snow, the majesty of this glacier and nature in its purest form and untouched. The crew told us that this was one of the best days which they had encountered. The glaciers had very interesting names like, Surprise Glacier, Harriman, Barry Arms, Yale, Baby, Dartmouth, Williams, Amherst, Crescent etc. The lady commentator on the cruise told us that in this five hour trip we would become an expert on glaciers and I feel very thankful for being part of this and knowing about glaciers in such details and learning so much. She answered all kinds of queries. This is an ocean of knowledge and one that is fascinating and needs more reading as far as I am concerned. Glaciers are of three kinds, Tidewater, which move towards sea, Piedmont, which rest on base of mountains and Alpine the hanging glaciers. The beauty of the ice, the majestic beauty of this Prince William Sound region will be imbedded in my heart, mind and soul for ever. I feel proud of the fact that I could visit the largest intact marine echo system of the world that was carved more than 15million yeas before., along the coastline and of the 150 glaciers here I could touch at lest twenty six.
