We woke up at 7am with blue skies and the sounds of seagulls hunting for food on the shore not 20 feet from the stern of our boat. It is low tide and we were in 30 feet of water at the stern but the shore just came up quickly so if you could jump you could almost make it to shore.
John, Steve, Judy & Don decided to go in front of Reid Glacier to investigate the shoreline. It seemed so much closer but we were one mile from the front of the glacier. So John decided to headed out for an early morning row in Alpha to the glacier while Daleen worked on the computer and had some non 24/7 time and watched all the birds and wildlife around the Omega. When John returned he said it was 4 miles to the glacier, I just laughed and told him it was only one mile and he said it had to be 6 miles to the glacier. Everything is so big up here that when you look at the shore or mountain, it is really much further away.
Steve, Judy and Don took their dinghy to shore and walked the mile to Reid glacier. Steve said he counted over 25 small streams coming into the inlet on a short section of the mile long walk.
Around 12:30 we slipped lines from Code Blue and headed to North Sandy Cov
e.The weather is beautiful and is between 65 and 70 degrees. The mou
ntains continue to amaze us all and look different with sunny or cloudy conditions and also which direction you are looking. We have taken so many pictures, you feel like you don’t need to take one more and then it happened…. John and I turned around from the cockpit of the Omega and saw the Fairweather mountain range with peaks from 10,204 to Mt Fairweather at 15300 ft and part of the Brady Icefield above Glacier Bay. The sun was shining and it was absolutely gorgeous. Yes, again it brought tears to our eyes and yes,
again I took another picture. I will add one to our travel log knowing full well that it cannot do it justice. Pardon the old saying “but you truly have to see to believe the beauty”. 
July 3rd, we adventured into Muir Inlet,north toward Riggs and Mc
Bride Glaciers. Also Saoirse, Don and Diane Brock announced that we were headed to Mt. Brock at the head of Muir Inlet. “Their own 
personal mountain” So I took a picture of Don, Diane and Mt. Brock. How exciting….Steve and Judy, aboard Code Blue, announce on the radio that there was a bear on the point. This was our first black bear sighting which was near Muir Point today. We all were like kids at the zoo, so excited and talking back and forth on the radio at what each of us saw.
Over the course of 2 days, we pulled 6 prawn traps (4 at 400 ft of line each and 2 at 160 ft of line each) and only collected 4 prawns. Delicious 4 prawns and a good workout but the prawns must have been on vacation too… Steve and Judy, who have been the award crab collectors also found starfish and sea urchins in their crab pot this morning.
However, John and Steve went fishing yesterday morning from the Alpha and we are having a 4th of July rockfish dinner and movie night in Bartlett Cove, our final evening in Glacier Bay National Park.
A truly magnificent 7 days.
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