Mother Nature can sometimes play us all for fools; reminding us that she’s in charge no matter what.
This morning when I wrapped my chilly fingers around my daily cup of hot chocolate I looked out the office window to see chilly, wet, white cloud; fog engulfing the ship like a blanket, hiding everything from view except a few feet of water and a vague outline of a distant horizon.
On Glacier Bay day this isn’t the best thing, the glaciers are the biggest draw for this cruise, they’re what everyone comes to see – and right now? We’re fogged in. Hopefully it will clear by the time we actually arrive, but as I said, Mother Nature can play us all for fools. The crew doesn’t particularly worry about such things as far as our own photo ops go – we’ll be back here in a few days after all, but I do worry for the sake of the passengers, some of them have saved for years to be able to come on this cruise and – much as they do sometimes get on my nerves – I hate to see people disappointed.
It would be like going to Disneyland and finding the best ride in the park shut down…
Not fair…
Eventually, thankfully, the fog did lift – just enough for the mountains to loom out of the white, towering above us as if they stretched even beyond the sky; giving the illusion that we had suddenly tumbled into the kingdom of the giants. Eerie, and silent.
With the glacier behind us and open water ahead of us again the fog dropped down and tucked us in once more; I know there’s land out there somewhere, I just can’t see it…