This is pretty funny. So the park allows only two cruise ships in per day. On this particular day a Cruise West ship decided to get too close to the Grand Pacific Glacier (the glacier at the very end of the bay) and it got stuck because it was low tide and they stopped at a shallow area. Our tour boat, The Fairweather Express II, had to detour from it's daily tour, and come to it's rescue. It was an all day affair. Usually the F-Ex II comes back to the lodge at about 3:30pm, but on this particular day did not arrive back home until after 8pm. They had to bring aboard the 30 guest of the Cruise West ship (it is a smaller ship) plus the crew.
We then had to find a way to get them out of Glacier Bay. All the rooms at the Lodge were already full, so the front desk was working overtime to find them flights out of here or trying to find them a place to stay at one of the many Inn's in Gustavus. It made national news, and was in all the big papers, here is a link to the article in the Juneau Empire.
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Those dorks. How does one do that? I bet that captain is in a whole lot of trouble.
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