We slept in to 7 am and missed the main attraction here shown at 6 am. Oh well ...
Located on the northern edge of Prince William Sound in south central Alaska, College Fjord is home to a multitude of large and small glaciers, including 5 tidewaters that calve icebergs into the fjord. It was discovered in 1899 by the Harriman Expedition and the professors on board named all the glaciers after top East Coast colleges: Harvard, Wellesley, Vassar, Williams, Yale, Bryn Mawr, Holyoake, Radcliffe, Smith, Dartmouth and Barnard.
Did catch some of the ice littered water at 7 am.
Later that afternoon we passed by Bligh Reef where the Exxon Valdez ran aground on March 24, 1989 spilling 10.8 million gallons of oil. About 1300 miles of Alaska coastline was polluted.
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