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A Wilderness Adventure — Page 5

Glacier Bay A national treasure that melts before your eyes

A panorama view of Margerie Glacier

The ship sailed into Glacier Bay, picking up a couple of National Park Service rangers to explain the history and sights of the preserve to ship passengers

Never missing a chance to eat and drink, we partied on our balcony and enjoyed the splendor of the bays with full stomachs and anti-freeze in our bloodstreams Mark looks the quintessential tar in his woolen cap

A glacier carved the bowl-like crevice in the mountain, to the left, but the ice has receded up into the clouds or melted altogether Below, a waterfall looks like lightning striking the back of a ship passing near the falls

Cherie, below, checks out the floating glacial debris, as other ship passengers, right, gaze at a glacier

Above, a map of Glacier Bay shows the location of the Margerie Glacier (shown in the green inset) up near the Canadian border. The dated black lines show the positions of the receding glaciers over the last hundred years. They have melted back many miles and continue to shrink. Left, the Margerie Glacier continues to fall, or calve, into the sea water. The calving sounds are awesome: first the sound of rifle cracks, then the booming sound of thunder.

NASA Multimedia History of Glacier Bay Below are an animation of a glacial fly-over and a movie of a glacier calving from the NASA Glacier Bay web site. Click on one of the images below to open the movie in a new window. Close that window when you're done to return to this page.

Bay Watch
	After a day of glacial sound and fury, a relaxing evening sail in the inner passage is in order

Yours truly pops his feet up in the ship's stern lounge to enjoy the evening view

Cherie, Mark, and Cyndi enjoy an evening libation in the lounge and swap impressions of the day's sights and sounds

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