Cruise Day 6 - Valdez

Check out this view from our balcony when we returned from our excursion. 

After breakfast we headed to our excursion which required a tender ride into Valdez.  Unfortunately, a fog bank rolled in as we boarded the tender which stopped us from departing, so we sat there for about 30 minutes before the fog lifted and we got clearance to proceed to town. Once there we got on our bus (which had a super good bus driver!) and headed out. He took us to the former location of the town and explained how it was wiped out in the 1964 earthquake and was rebuilt in its current location.

Here are two pictures showing the scenery in the Valdez area.

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We then headed to a salmon hatchery where they remove the eggs from salmon, then raise the salmon fry in pens before releasing them.   
The scenery from there was beautiful as you can see in these pictures.   I love seeing our ship across the bay in front of those mountains!

Our next stop was Worthington Glacier where our driver positioned us to get this great photo before taking us to the recreation site to get a closer look at it.   It is very impressive to see, especially when you compare it to the photo on the right which was taken  from the recreation site. 

We took many, many more pictures like these two, of waterfall, mountains, and glaciers, but I guess enough is enough!

We have a sea day tomorrow as we head to Hubbard Glacier on Monday, having reached the midpoint of our cruise.   Seattle seems to be so very long ago!