Glacier viewing

Saturday June 23rd 2012

Still sunny this morning and nice and calm in the anchorage, not so sure about the channel outside. Low tide is not till 10:45AM after which the flood tide will push us up the channel to where we want to go. For now we are having a leisurely breakfast and enjoying the surroundings .
Still T shirt weather in the bay this morning it is 19 C at 9:30.
Later
Cruised up to the end of Tarr Inlet, which incidentally put us within a mile of the Alaska/Canadian border, and visited Grand Pacific Glacier(which has it’s origin in Canada) and Marjorie Glacier.

Marjorie Glacier

Bald eagle looking for lunch from an ice floe

Weird water brown and blue

Grand Pacific glacier’s foot is covered in rocks and gravel and it is hard to even recognize it as ice whereas Marjorie glacier is what you expect a tidewater glacier to look like. We were lucky in that the north wind up here last night and today cleared most of the floating ice away from the foot of the glacier so we could get quite close for some great pictures and to hear the glacier cracking and groaning as chunks break off and fall into the water. There was a tour boat leaving the area as we arrived and other than that we were all alone to experience the wonder of it all.

Afterwards we returned via Lamplugh Glacier and Reid Glacier but could not get too close because of the floating ice floes and bergs. We spent some time at slow speed wending our way though all the ice, hitting one of these could really ruin your day.

Reid Glacier

This could ruin your day

Too much ice to get closer to Lamplugh glacier

The weather continued to spoil us with sunny skies all day and another beautiful, warm, peaceful evening here back at Blue Mouse Cove. The sailboat that shared the bay with us last night is gone so we got the best spot in the anchorage for tonight.

Back at Blue Mouse Cove

Another fantastic day in a beautiful place.