Serving Prince William Sound

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Shoup Glacier - Everyone's Favorite Destination

* GLACIER VIEWING * BIRD WATCHING *
* ABUNDANT MARINE LIFE *

Group Price Available

This Price Includes:
• Transportation to and from the Glacier
• Interpretive tour from start to finish
• Bird Watching - Many rare species of ducks are seen
.. in Prince William Sound, not to mention bald eagles,
.. seabirds, puffins, and the thousands of black-legged
.. Kittiwakes at the Kittiwake Rookery.
• Wildlife viewing: We have binoculars on board!
• Glacier viewing: Breathtaking!

Glaciers are found in a variety of settings in Alaska and come in a variety of different types, including mountain, valley, piedmont, cirque, hanging, and tidewater glaciers. Found at the heads of fiords and inlets, tidewater glaciers flow to the seacoast. Many of the most active glaciers calve daily when giant pieces of ice crack off the head of the glacier and fall into the sea. Tidewater glaciers that end in deep water can also calve from under the water, shooting huge pieces of ice like missiles up through the surface to fall back with mighty splashes. The image of slow, imperceptible glacial movement is now replaced by the sounds of the thundering ice bergs cracking and falling into the sea. The freshly-calved bergs are often a sparkling deep blue and assume fantastic shapes as they slowly drift with the currents or beach themselves on outgoing tides. Glacial ice appears blue because it absorbs all colors of the visible light spectrum except blue, which it transmits. Glacial ice may also appear white because some ice is highly fractured with air pockets and indiscriminately scatters the visible light spectrum. All this makes tidewater glacier watching such a spectacular way to spend the day!