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Aug 27 2009

Glacial Madness

If I were opening this page on a website I wouldn’t believe it was real.  But alas, I was there, took this photo and reveled in the incredible beauty of something so rare in my lifetime.  It’s really hard to comprehend the magnitude of the glaciers.  The size of the icebergs are also hard to understand from the deck of a huge cruise ship.  The only photos that represent this are those of the smaller ship moving closer to the ice.  There are two days of glacier glory.  The first day was sunny and warm in Glacier Bay.  The second day was cold and foggy in College Fjord.  But on the second day there were seals.  Many seals resting on the ice at the foot of the glaciers.  Both days illicited a mantra that I repeated to myself over and over – I am close to heaven, what a lucky girl I am.

Floating monstrous Ice
Glacial Float
Glacier in the fog
Glacier on the mountain
Glacier to the sea
Ice Float
A Seal’s Paradise
Iceberg ahead
Icy Glacier
Zebra Iceberg
The Great White Whale
Perspectives Two
Perspectives
Water flowing through the glacier
Little itty bitty hanging glacier
Glacial icicles
Love the color
Spikes
Glacier shoreline
Glacier contrast
Seaside and Mountainside
Here comes the glacier
Glacier trough
Bird on Ice III
Bird on Ice II
Bird on ice
We were really there

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  1. Kathy says

    September 9, 2009 at 8:04 pm

    now this looks like your kind of weather. are you and risa standing on icy glacier float like the bird on ice?

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