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Another waterfall
Here's another waterfall. Again there is such a contrast in
what you see. There is lots of lush vegetation, interspersed
with bare craggy rock, a few "chunks" of Glacier ice here
and there, bergys in the water below and everything
connected together by a gentle waterfall wandering its way
through it all. |
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Margerie Glacier in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska
Tarr Inlet led us up to what some people call "The Most
Beautiful Glacier" in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska.
Technically however, Margerie Glacier is the "whitest", of
any of the Glaciers in Glacier Bay. This is attributed to
the amount of air trapped into the ice. Margerie Glacier had
been busy and actively "calving" (this is when great chunks
of glacier break loose) over the past few days and we were
in for a treat as well. |
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Seagulls diving by Margerie Glacier
Like most of the tidewater glaciers, there was a great river
flowing out from somewhere beneath Margerie Glacier (located
in this picture in the dark area between the glacier and the
water). This created a great surge of water that mixed and
churned everything up. We're not sure how they were finding
what to eat, however the seagulls were busy the entire time
diving into the water and coming up with food, presumably
small fish. Again, as with the other glaciers, it was
interesting to see how the entire scenery changed between
high and low tide. At low tide this was a true torrent of
water; at high tide it looked more like a bubbling mass of
water. |
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Margerie's peaks and spires
Precariously positioned on the edge and cracked throughout,
great chunks of ice appeared as if they were ready to break
loose at any moment. Surprisingly solid though, these peaks
and spires of ice held on during this day, only to break
away and crash into the water on another day. |
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Margerie Glacier up close
Although Margerie Glacier was losing large chunks of ice
while we visited it, it was interested that the river of
water coming out from under the glacier was so great that,
unlike Johns Hopkins Glacier, it kept all of the floating
ice and bergys a considerable distance away from the face of
the glacier. This photo shows the huge cracks and pieces of
glacier that are ready to fall at any time. |
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