Hubbard Glacier

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We slept later today since it was essentially a sea day. Clay saw a school of something jumping/rolling by the ship when I was in the shower. We saw some more from Horizons Lounge while we sailed through more fog. We arrived at the bay to Hubbard Glacier around noon. We were probably in front of it from about 1 to 3pm. We had a good port side view from Terrace Cafe and went down to our starboard cabin just as they were turning the ship to face on that side. I had forgotten how loud glaciers are!

At 5:45pm in Regatta Lounge they had the past passengers reception. There were more people at that than at the Captain's Welcome Reception! They said they had invited almost 400 Oceania Club members which impressive for a ship that only holds a little over 600.

We got a letter today inviting us to Alcatraz & Saulsalito excursion on turnaround day in San Francisco for $209. We will stay with our original independent plans. We also got a letter telling us that they had canceled the 3rd of our 3 included excursions on this segment. They offered us another Astoria excursion or $100 pp nonrefundable shipboard credit. We'd like that if we can use it after San Francisco but it isn't clear they will. We'll have to go to Destination Services tomorrow sometime I guess.

I had a new favorite dessert that neither of us remember seeing on Oceania before. We'd have remembered! I had a vanilla and raspberry vacherin. Clay wasn't sure since we didn't know what it was but I figured I liked to 2 flavors in the name and I ordered the petit four tray to be sure. The vacherin was a disk of vanilla ice cream topped by a disk of raspberry sorbet topped by a hard meringue disk and surrounded and garnished by meringue bits garnished with fresh raspberries. I loved it. It seemed like the kind of dessert the Aussies would have loved but we didn't see this dessert earlier this year on Sirena doing the circumnavigation. Go figure. The menus have been very similiar otherwise.

It was a pretty good day in SE Alaska. Now we are southbound. Tomorrow is a return to Sitka.

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