Whittier is not much more than a cruise ship port with less than a few hundred residents and only 30-40 of them stay year round. The one thing that Whittier does have is great close up access to several glaciers in the area's bays and water inlets. Before boarding the cruise ship here, we spent the day floating in out of the bays getting our first experience with the glaciers of Alaska. It was cold and rainy but the color of the glaciers was amazing, we also had a short visit by a couple of otters.