You will get cruise ships in Glacier Bay as well as Tracy Arm. The advantage
of Tracy Arm is that you don't have to get a permit in advance and can enter
whenever you show up. Glacier Bay requires you get a permit way in advance
and give the exact days you will be in the park. Since there aren't a lot of
anchorages around near glaciers, you will have a decent day travel into and
back from the actual Glacier. If your time is short and you want to play in
the ice flows, Tracy Arm is probably a better choice.
There's some Tracy Arm pictures at
http://www.jcruiser.org/37/Jeorgia/A...aska_trip1.htm from my trip
summer before last.

Paul
www.jcruiser.org
"Steve" wrote in message
...
I'm working out a few details of my summer '04 trip up the Inside Passage
and it looks like I will have time to go as far as Glacier Bay and take a
look at some ice.

Does anyone have any recommendations of what inlets or glaciers that make
it
all worth while?? I figure I will only have a day or two to spend there
and
don't want to go any farther north.

Also I would like to avoid following in the wake of the cruise ships.. I
know they go into Tracy Arm and Sawyer Glacier. Maybe the fact that my
boat
is smaller, I can get into places that they can't.

Suggestions will be appreciated.

Steve
s/v Good Intentions