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| Alaska, The Great Land Into the Wild - My great Alaskan Railroad Adventure |
| We stayed at the Seward Windsong Lodge (Iris building). Very pretty log buildings. We're on the second floor |
| One of many braided rivers fed by runoff from the glaciers. The silt carried from the glaciers settles and causes these rivers to shift their coarse quite quickly – over the period of just a few days – thus causing these braids you see. Our guide tells us just a week earlier the river was running all the way over to the right side of the picture & 3 days earlier it was in the middle. |
| Exit Glacier from miles away (we get MUCH closer) |
| This is where the glacier was in 1926 – you can see Exit Glacier off in the background. There are signs like this all along the 2 1/2 mile path up to Exit Glacier showing the various points the glacier had reached over the past 300 year of advancing and receding. |
| Closer to Exit Glacier - The unusually warm summer has caused the runoff to be too strong to allow us to walk right up to the glacier via the streambed so we were unable to actually touch it. |
| Here we are approaching the glacier. Our tour guide Dick gave a very informative talk. Who knew that vacations could be so educational? My sixth grade science teacher would be so proud. |
| Here we are just 100 feet from the glacier. There was a nice cool breeze coming off the ice, which was very welcome as we were feeling very hot after that long tiring climb up to Exit Glacier. I met a very nice couple from Australia. Seems almost everyone in Alaska is from somewhere else. Here I am standing in front of the Glacier. Where I am standing would have been under 1000 feet of ice just 10 years ago. |
Here I am, an old man resting in a rocking chair in front of the Windsong Lodge.
Just waiting for the shuttle bus to pick us up to take us to the harbor. All
prepared for our day on the water, digital camera in my fanny pack, sun glasses
hanging off the front of my shirt, Red Sox World Series Champions 2007 hat on
my head, and long sleeves because I'm told it gets chilly out on the water.
Just waiting for the shuttle bus to pick us up to take us to the harbor. All
prepared for our day on the water, digital camera in my fanny pack, sun glasses
hanging off the front of my shirt, Red Sox World Series Champions 2007 hat on
my head, and long sleeves because I'm told it gets chilly out on the water.
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