Hubbard Glacier on Princess

[Glaciers]

Anyone on a Princess trip this year make it to the face of Hubbard Glacier?  Seems since they started the optional excursion a few years ago they are not making any attempts at getting closer. I do see several posts that other lines are making it much closer.

[quack2]

NCL is chickening out of Hubbard if there is ice within 50 miles of the ship.  (Perhaps I exaggerate.  A little).

[wolfie11]

2 hours ago, quack2 said:

NCL is chickening out of Hubbard if there is ice within 50 miles of the ship.  (Perhaps I exaggerate.  A little).

Not by much!  We sailed past the Spirit and up to 3/4 of a mile off the glacier on Crown this week.  Evidently they pranged a ship on an ice floe in the bay in 2022 and are orders to not get into any ice.  They were about 8 miles off and it was foggy so you couldn’t even see the glacier from there.

 

Great calving!

[Glaciers]

6 hours ago, wolfie11 said:

 We sailed past the Spirit and up to 3/4 of a mile off the glacier on Crown this week. 

At what point did the excursion pick up from the ship? Was it still miles off or did they pick up after getting that close?

[wolfie11]

43 minutes ago, Glaciers said:

At what point did the excursion pick up from the ship? Was it still miles off or did they pick up after getting that close?

We had two excursions.  One was early and then dropped off and picked up more pax when we were nearing the glacier.  They dropped off when we started to leave.  

[Glaciers]

1 minute ago, wolfie11 said:

We had two excursions.  One was early and then dropped off and picked up more pax when we were nearing the glacier.  They dropped off when we started to leave.  

That's interesting. I had not heard they were doing multiple excursions from the same ship.