{"id":8115,"date":"2024-03-31T08:11:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T08:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/sailing-the-impressive-tracy-arm-and-endicott-arm-fjord-to-the-dawes-glacier-alaska\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T09:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T09:45:12","slug":"sailing-the-impressive-tracy-arm-and-endicott-arm-fjord-to-the-dawes-glacier-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/sailing-the-impressive-tracy-arm-and-endicott-arm-fjord-to-the-dawes-glacier-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"Sailing Tracy Arm And Endicott Arm Fjord To Dawes Glacier, Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leaving Ketchikan<\/a>, I remember (rather eagerly) looking forward to our very next port stop on our Celebrity Cruise through Alaska<\/a>. The next stop was in Juneau after all and hopefully, this would finally be the chance for us to get to see some whales.<\/p>\n

At this point, I didn\u2019t even care what sort of whale it was \u2013 as long as we saw one. We\u2019d tried whale watching far and wide and seen nothing so the potential of seeing any was a pretty big deal for us.<\/p>\n

Suffice to say, long before we even hopped aboard the Celebrity Cruise to Alaska<\/a> (like aaaaagggeeeeees before), whale watching was the very first thing we signed up for! But more on that stuff later… \ud83d\ude01<\/p>\n

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I was so excited about the next stop (the very next day), that I kinda totally glazed over anything else that we had planned in between Ketchikan<\/a> and Juneau.<\/p>\n

Oh yeah, for dinner, we headed over to the Grand Epernay restaurant for an amazing dinner (seriously, the food is really good here), starting with the gnocchi for myself and French onion soup for Lloyd \u2013 with cocktails thrown in for good measure!<\/p>\n

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For mains, I went for the pork while Lloyd for the chicken.<\/p>\n

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Finishing off with cheesecake and pannacotta for dessert.<\/p>\n

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By the way, settling in at the martini bar after dinner that evening did nothing to help that afore-mentioned \u2018glazing over\u2019 either. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

In fact, I think it was just as I was about to go to sleep that I noticed something about glacier, fjords and icebergs (housekeeping leave you a schedule of what you can choose to do the next day when they do the turn down service), that I remembered we would be sailing through the Tracy Arm fjord the very next day.<\/p>\n

\u201cCool!<\/em>\u201d I thought, making a mental note to try to get up a bit early to take a gander of it as we sailed through, before promptly falling into a delightfully satisfying slumber.<\/p>\n

The next morning, I groggily got up to check out what the view looked like, totally intent on going right back to sleep after a quick peek (we\u2019d be in Juneau later that afternoon after all).<\/p>\n

As soon as I pulled the curtains to check out the view of the fjord, I instantly realised that I wouldn\u2019t be going back to sleep anytime soon \u2013 it was absolutely beautiful!<\/p>\n

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That glass-like water, surrounded by all those tall mountains, with little icebergs floating past makes for quite the sight to wake up to.<\/p>\n

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Keen to get an even better view from outside, I put my clothes on in record speed (I almost went out in pyjamas, to be totally honest and re-thought it at the last minute), hurriedly grabbed my camera, woke Lloyd up and headed over to the helipad on the ship where we got a pretty epic view of the fjord!<\/p>\n

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Turns out, due to huge amounts of ice in Tracy Arm Fjord, we couldn\u2019t sail properly into that arm of the fjords and (after a while) instead, took a diversion into the equally impressive Endicott Arm fjord.<\/p>\n

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The scene as we sailed through the fjord just got prettier and prettier \u2013 it was just so serene and unlike anything else we\u2019d seen so far on this trip.<\/p>\n

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In some ways, it kinda reminded me of the fjords in Norway, except, of course, the ones I\u2019d been to in Norway certainly didn\u2019t have icebergs floating in them.<\/p>\n

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And then, the sun started to rise, making an already gorgeous place even more beautiful! I just couldn\u2019t get enough of it.<\/p>\n

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I did notice also that the icebergs were getting bigger and bigger as we sailed past…<\/p>\n

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…also that we were passing by even bigger mountains now, topped with glaciers almost like icing on a cake.<\/p>\n

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As we weaved our way through the fjord, I finally got my first view of the Dawes Glacier!<\/p>\n

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Glaciers fascinate me. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s because they hold secrets from thousands of years ago if it\u2019s the whole \u2018ice age\u2019 thing, or because generally, we don\u2019t really have anything like this in the UK but I just find them so impressive and absolutely beautiful!<\/p>\n

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Apparently, from time to time, you can hear the Dawes Glacier \u2018calving\u2019 (i.e. bits of it breaking off the glacier and falling into the water) and when it does, it makes quite an impressive (and rather loud) sound reverberating through the arm of the fjord.<\/p>\n

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Alas, this didn\u2019t happen while we were there but it was still, impressive nonetheless.<\/p>\n

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We also came across harbour seals, sat on icebergs, totally unbothered by us as we sailed past.<\/p>\n

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Eventually, after getting as close to the glacier as possible, the ship turned around and headed back out of the fjord in the direction of Juneau! \ud83e\udd17<\/p>\n

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Juneau, by the way, was everything we\u2019d hoped for and more! \ud83d\ude01It was absolutely incredible and easily the highlight of the whole cruise – I\u2019ll show you exactly why in the very next post!<\/p>\n

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Leaving Ketchikan, I remember (rather eagerly) looking forward to our very next port stop on our Celebrity Cruise through Alaska. The next stop was in Juneau after all and hopefully, this would finally be the chance for us to get to see some whales. At this point, I didn\u2019t even care what sort of whale … Continue Reading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,396],"tags":[390,393],"class_list":["post-8115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","category-travel-journal","tag-alaska","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}