We woke up to heavy fog again this morning. Given this and that yesterday the fog really
did not lift we changed our plans and decided to head up the west arm of
Glacier Bay to Reid Inlet. We were
planning to go up the east arm but this would be a much better experience with
no fog. In the west arm we can anchor in
Reid Inlet and go hike around Reid Glacier, which is no longer a tide water glacier. Fog won’t be much of a factor for us at Reid
Glacier.
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There are over 9000 otters now in Glacier Bay when 20 years ago there were none.
They are so fun to watch |
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| Tufted Puffin! |
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| Beautiful Riggs Glacier |
The fog lifted before we arrived and we were able to kayak
to shore and drag our kayaks high up the beach so the rising tide could not
carry them away. After our hike up along
the side of the glacier (Medial Moraine) where we found some incredible ice caves,
we walked along the face of the glacier (Terminal Moraine). The face of this glacier is now hundreds of
yards from the ocean.
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| Hiking up along the side of the glacier |
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| Kevin on a rectangular boulder |
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| This was the first ice cave with glistening blue ice |
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| Going further up, MV Adagio out there in the bay to the right |
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| Cindy holding up the ice |
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| The glacier is dropping rocks onto this pile |
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| really blue ice! |
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The blue just doesn't look real. But it is. Zoom in on this image to
really appreciate the intense colors. |
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| Steve and Kathy - bluer than this looks |
The kids ran back to our kayaks very far away and towed the extra two kayaks to the center of the face so we could paddle in the pools up at the glacier’s face.
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| The pool in front of the glacier |
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| Yes touching the glacier, but no worries here! |
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| Wider angle shot of us in front of the glacier |
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| Coming back to Adagio |
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