Summer was the season for our visit to the edge of eternal, for now, Patagonian ice fields. Remnants from the last ice age, larger than some (small) countries. The site is surprisingly noisy with sharp, explosive, ice crackles.
More amazing even than the sounds, the dark shading on the ice is volcanic dust from recent eruptions of many cones.
Click this link for my series of posts about Chilean fjords and glaciers we visited February 2016.
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I had the pleasure of cruising Alaska’s Glacier Bay in a 65′ sailboat after crossing from Hawaii. The blues in the ice that you show were stunning, and surprising, and I couldn’t believe how much cracking, groaning, and general noise there was. It wasn’t necessarily loud, but it was ‘there’, and quite interesting.
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What an experience. Was the sailboat yours?
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No. It was the Alaska Eagle, a sail training vessel out of Orange Coast College in Newport Beach: 65′, and a Whitbread Around-the-World race winner.
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There’s a photo of the boat in the middle of this post. This was an earlier sail to Catalina Island. Later, I flew to Hawaii, which is where we began the sail.
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Thanks for the reference, Linda. Both my father and father-in-law had “Gypsy Moth Circles the World” in their libraries, I read it twice with enjoyment and expect to return to it. You are fortunate to have made a choice to cast off for adventure. I followed your blog.
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I love the blue color of the ice.
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Live, it is fascinating as is the size of the glacier.
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Beautiful!
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Amazing!
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