{"id":12922,"date":"2013-03-09T03:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T03:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/smh-a-drift-in-a-frozen-paradise\/"},"modified":"2013-03-09T03:03:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T03:03:00","slug":"smh-a-drift-in-a-frozen-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/03\/smh-a-drift-in-a-frozen-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"SMH: A drift in a frozen paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Quite a sight ...  watching the birth of an iceberg.\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/images.smh.com.au\/2013\/01\/11\/3946625\/lat-20alaska-20m-20130111173211122086-620x349.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Quite a sight &#8230; watching the birth of an iceberg. Photo: Alamy <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div>             <b>Aboard a luxury small ship, Louise Goldsbury encounters native Alaskans, teeming wildlife and nascent icebergs. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Only 10 passengers are up on deck, but each stands hypnotised by the vision of this sub-zero sanctuary. Alaskan Dream, smaller than the Manly ferry, has prime position in front of a skyscraper- high glacier, with not another ship in sight. <\/p>\n<p>Our native Alaskan expedition leader, Kevin Skeek, points out the place where the kilometre-wide mass is most likely to calve. We believe him &#8211; his Tlingit name is Kaadushtoo, which means &#8220;the breaking of the glacier&#8221;. Passed down from former leaders of his clan, it is also the name of one of the hanging glaciers in nearby Johns Hopkins Inlet.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/travel\/activity\/cruises\/a-drift-in-a-frozen-paradise-20130111-2cjtu.html#ixzz2N0YKuPvf\">http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/travel\/activity\/cruises\/a-drift-in-a-frozen-paradise-20130111-2cjtu.html#ixzz2N0YKuPvf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a sight &#8230; watching the birth of an iceberg. Photo: Alamy Aboard a luxury small ship, Louise Goldsbury encounters native Alaskans, teeming wildlife and nascent icebergs. Only 10 passengers are up on deck, but each stands hypnotised by the vision of this sub-zero sanctuary. Alaskan Dream, smaller than the Manly ferry, has prime position [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-12922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alaskan-dream-cruises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}