Part of our cruise, like every Alaskan cruise, was a visit to a glacier. Our travel agent claimed that all of the glacier visits were similar, but after our visit to Endcott Arm, I was a little disappointed that we didn't do the cruise with a visit to glacier bay. However, with our sea plane excursion in Juneau, this glacier visit didn't stand a chance of impressing us. Our ship slowly creeped it's way up this narrow passage until finally stopping and then maneuvering back and forth to give both sides of the ship a view of the glacier. Then it turned around and headed back out to sea. It was kind of anticlimactic, but the water was this incredible turquoise color which contrasted well with the ice chunks floating around.
We did not get to experience any glacier calving, but even if it had happened at Endcott Arm, I don't think we would have been close enough to notice.
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