In my mind, glaciers and Mounties are two things that were real, but were always a bit of lore.
After we got underway on the Radiance of the Seas, a ship in the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line (RCCL), I learned just how real both of those things were.
The morning of our first cruising day, I checked the activity schedule and saw a presentation by a Mountie...well, a retired one. "Mountie," is a nickname for a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Gord Jamieson wore the uniform for 2 decades. He was so steeped in this world, that he married a fellow Mountie...in 1974, the first class of female graduated from the training academy.
I found the presentation to be interesting, and it prompted me to research the relationship between the RCMP and the Indigenous Peoples of Canada when I have some free time.
Later in the day, our Captain announced that the ship would be coming up to Hubbard Glacier. It was very large and quite frankly, I was rather awestruck.
Both Mounties and glaciers are very real, and very cool.
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