College Fjord is one of those hidden gems that not a lot of ships are going to. Usually the ships that are doing turnaround in Seward or in Whittier visit this pristine area with stunning large glacier.

Harvard Glacier is the largest of the College Fjord Alaskan glaciers at its northwestern head, and it is the second-largest tidewater glacier in Prince William Sound. A tidewater glacier flows from a mountain valley into the sea and will dramatically calve when a mass of ice splits off the glacier and plunges thunderously into the water. The most active tidewater glaciers in the world are in Prince William Sound. Harvard Glacier may also be the most dramatic to observe: Its face, at one-and-a-half miles wide, shows off its over-200-foot-thick depth, and it stretches 24 miles back to the Chugach Icefield — part of Chugach National Forest. Upon entering College Fjord, Alaska, passengers on Alaskan cruise may be able to see Harvard as the last of five glaciers in a row, separated by miles and mountains, just as Harriman’s scientists could.

This is a photo I took on a clear day