I have been away from this Blog for a while so I decided to update it.
This latest trip compelled me to post just these photos
to share.
After reading numerous books by John Muir and others this one day cruise
introduced my sons and I to one of Nature's most captivating
sceneries.
The Tracy Arm is about 60 miles south of Juneau and the first indication
of glacial activity was the huge iceberg at the entrance of the fjord.
The fjord is graced with glacial valleys of long past glaciers.
Water falls, too numerous to count, plummeted down the steep granitic slopes.
Geometric shapes defying belief were becoming more frequent.
The color blue provided dreamlike shades not often found on
a color wheel.
First sighting of the South Arm of Sawyer Glacier.
The water takes on a creamy green tint due to the glacial silt, finely ground rock, suspended in the seawater.
The full face of Sawyer Glacier.
Life abounds here. Harbor seal mom and pups dot the floating ice.
On this day we were blessed with alternate moments of clouds and direct
sunlight giving the glacier a changing personality moment by moment.
We arrived at the peak of high tide. The icepack became thicker and the subtly of the ice grating against itself was an eerie sound.
Calving was often missed but the sounds echoed of the Valley walls.
