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Ice with Everything...

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The view from our boat in Blue Mouse Cove this morning. John did the anchor honors as I drove. The Holland America Line Westerdam as we exited Blue Mouse Cove. Heading up the western arm in Glacier Bay. Not a bad view, looking up towards the John Hopkins Glacier. Waterfalls litter the steep mountainsides on both sides of these channels. Cue the humpback whales. I made Karen nervous navigating us through a narrow channel enroute to the Marjorie and Grand Pacific glaciers. So, she is up on the bow looking out for shallow areas.   I don't really complain as our mutual caution keeps us out of any real trouble. As we passed through the narrow channel, a stream from glacier-melt empties into the channel.   Look at the difference in colors and density.  Totally cool! Triple Trouble (1+1 = 3)... Bergy-bits.   They are everywhere. So, we played Dodge-Berg.   No dodgeballs or wrenches involved. While these aren't dangerous, they are large enough to cau...
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Hanging Glaciers in Wachusett Inlet, Glacier Bay

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The Carroll Glacier with the prominent medial moraines (streaks of crushed rock that form parallel dark lines down the glacier). Sunrise (which looks a lot like sunset) from our anchorage in S. Sandy Cove.   For what it is worth, it got dark at about 1230 (12:30am) and light again at 0245 (2:45 am).   It is hard to get to sleep when it is so light all the time! A pair of nonplused sea otters as we departed the cove. Work calls.   I closed a new client for my client today.  Thank heavens for Starlink.  I have solid connectivity from anywhere, even for video calls. And our first hanging glacier (I don't know which one this is).   It is just up on the north side as we turn from the Muir Inlet into the Wachusett Inlet. Beautiful "U" shaped hanging valleys & bowls line both sides of the fjord (Wachusett Inlet). A lovely cascade plummeting down the steep hillside.  These hills are essentially the lateral moraines left over from the si...
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