Today we cruised the Tracy Arm Fjord, hoping ice would not stop is from getting back to South Saywer glacier. We heard that the much larger Sapphire Princess made it back to the glacier 2 days ago so I was pretty confident our smaller ship would make it.
The scenery on the way in was spectacular! Towering mountains and very long, steep waterfalls as you can see from these pictures. There was also lots of floating ice, including some very large ones as you can see in the first picture. White ice, blue ice, deep blue ice, green ice, dirty grey ice, all kinds of ice in all sizes. The ship steered clear of most of it, but one 2 occasions had to plow through scattered fields of small ice floes. There were also too many waterfalls to count, running down in deep cuts into the mountain from the high ice fields. Pictured here is just one of hundreds of similar multi-step waterfalls. The naturalist who spoke yesterday say this fjord is more impressive that those in Norway. I find that hard to believe, but now feel compelled to check it out on a future cruise.
As we approached the glacier, we passed an island that the ship had never been able to pass before. I'm pretty sure the Sapphire Princess had stopped there. But we were able to continue on maybe another mile past that island and got fairly close to the glacier when ice forced us to turn around. It was very impressive to get this far into this fjord and to see this glacier form a distance few others had seen it.
On the way back, we saw the "other" side of the fjord from our balcony and Mary caught some rays on our second sunny day in a row. Isn't she cute all bundled up!
The scenery on the way in was spectacular! Towering mountains and very long, steep waterfalls as you can see from these pictures. There was also lots of floating ice, including some very large ones as you can see in the first picture. White ice, blue ice, deep blue ice, green ice, dirty grey ice, all kinds of ice in all sizes. The ship steered clear of most of it, but one 2 occasions had to plow through scattered fields of small ice floes. There were also too many waterfalls to count, running down in deep cuts into the mountain from the high ice fields. Pictured here is just one of hundreds of similar multi-step waterfalls. The naturalist who spoke yesterday say this fjord is more impressive that those in Norway. I find that hard to believe, but now feel compelled to check it out on a future cruise.
As we approached the glacier, we passed an island that the ship had never been able to pass before. I'm pretty sure the Sapphire Princess had stopped there. But we were able to continue on maybe another mile past that island and got fairly close to the glacier when ice forced us to turn around. It was very impressive to get this far into this fjord and to see this glacier form a distance few others had seen it.
On the way back, we saw the "other" side of the fjord from our balcony and Mary caught some rays on our second sunny day in a row. Isn't she cute all bundled up!
1 comment:
Mary does look cute all rugged up Bill , she looks to be a little cold !!
What a beautiful country . Thanks for showing us your pictures , just beautiful .
Have fun
Pat
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