in this video, we're going to approach and see Hubbard Glacier and the day that
we're working with is not such a good day the weather is cloudy and rainy very
low ceiling but we'll get up close and personal with the glacier you'll see
some things that are quite interesting including people kayaking right out
there by the glacier more than a minute welcome to traveling with a chair now if
we're meeting for the first time my name is Ken Edmonds and what I do is to help
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we're going to take a look at hubbard glacier on our cruise southbound on the
Norwegian jewel here's today's video okay so we're starting to get a lot
closer to hubbard glacier you can see it there in the distance now again I
apologize the camera lens has got some water spots on it because it was raining
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and you can see just barely out in the water there's some of these black specks
are kayakers will pass the ship that they're off of but they're out kayaking
in and around the ice and some of them are actually winding up fairly close to
the glacier on a day like it was today it's not a day place I wanted to be
because it was cold and rainy you can see the people alongside the the railing
there wearing towels and anything they can to try to stay dry the again it
works and it's just one of those challenges you can start to see some
more kayakers out there there's the ship that they were off of I think it was a
seaborne ship that were they had gotten off of and they were actually doing the
excursion directly off of the ship and we'll continue our approach in I did
speed up the speed of the video that's why everybody's walking so fast we're
going about four times normal speed again it's more of the kayakers out
there in the water there's the glacier ahead of you you can
see you know we're just getting closer and closer and in a minute I'm going to
change my perspective because I'm actually gonna go down and film the the
very last piece of this video from my balcony
and if I had it to do over again I'd have stayed there the whole time because
rather than being standing out here in the rain I'd had very similar views from
the balcony on my balcony cabin and I'd have been warm and dry so that's one of
the times and and I will say this about cruising in Alaska that's the only time
I would pay extra for a balcony a lot of people love balconies all the time but
I'm here to tell you that when you're in Alaska it's really nice to not have to
be out in the rain now for those that wanted to watch from inside the
observation observation lounge is really nice but again you the challenge you had
is a lot of people and you wound up with water streaking down the window so it
made it hard for photography again now I'm down on the balcony of my cabin you
can see a pretty nice view of the glacier this is one of the largest
Tidewater glaciers in North America I want to say it's about seven miles wide
where it hits the ocean in here so we're just we've been just slowly steaming
past it and if in a few seconds we're gonna be starting to head away from the
glacier and and and head out this was the our second day of pretty
bad weather on this trip and this was the last day of bad weather as you can
see we're starting to steam away from it you can see a lot of the I used to
breathe it's in the water and as we're moving away little pieces of ice that
have broken off the glacier we didn't really see anything in the way of major
calving events but I think that was because it was cold and gray I think on
a warm sunny day the glacier is probably much more active now just one more of
the many wonderful things we got a chance to see up close and personal
during our crews in Alaska hope you enjoyed this video of hubbard glacier
I'm sure you were warmer and drier watching it than I was as I recorded it
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