My oh my.
I have flown a lot of miles.
That Alaska is a long way from here.
When I was there, someone asked me how I liked Alaska. I told her I was 'bemused'. She looked at me and said she thought it looked more like I was 'bewitched'. . . I'm putting that down to the glacier burn on my face. ;-)
Speaking of glaciers.....
Here are a couple of pictures:
[album 65561 Glacier1.JPG]
I thought my raspberry beret looked good with a glacier backdrop . . .
Here is another one:
[album 65561 Glacier2.JPG]
It is very hard to show the scale of the thing....
One more:
[album 65561 Glacier3.JPG]
The captain of the boat told us that the water pouring out of the middle of this glacier was quite unusual. It looked like a big chunk had recently fallen off right there and revealed this torrent flowing out into the inlet. While we were there, several hunks fell off into the water. Nothing HUGE mind you, but each time it sounded like a big SLAP and boom like a cannon had gone off. I kept wishing someone had put up a little 6 foot figure on the shore near the glacier so we could understand the scale of the thing. I'm guessing we were about 3 football fields away from it at least. You could hear it creaking and cracking. Eerie and awesome. My favorite part was on the far right where there was an area of solid blue ice. Wow.
We hung out there for at least 30 minutes while the captain sort of twirled the boat around very slowly so everyone could get a good look. It was really something.
More pictures in the coming days.
The one thing that effected me the most in Alaska was the fact that it never really got dark at night. I was there over the Summer Solstice. Here is a picture taken at 10:30 at night.
[album 65561 Glacier4.JPG]
I had to lay something over my eyes to get to sleep.
(Oh how demure she is.... she had a knee sock over her face half the 'night'. It was ridiculous.)
Well, the curtains didn't block out enough light. It was very easy to stay up till midnight and your body thought for sure it was only 9 or so. Weirdness personified.
I really have to run. There's very little food in the house, and the dog food bag is empty. I got the royal welcome home from the canines last night. Fiona ignored me. The little rascal.
It's good to be home.
But I'll be dreaming of Alaska.
For a long time.
I have flown a lot of miles.
That Alaska is a long way from here.
When I was there, someone asked me how I liked Alaska. I told her I was 'bemused'. She looked at me and said she thought it looked more like I was 'bewitched'. . . I'm putting that down to the glacier burn on my face. ;-)
Speaking of glaciers.....
Here are a couple of pictures:
[album 65561 Glacier1.JPG]
I thought my raspberry beret looked good with a glacier backdrop . . .
Here is another one:
[album 65561 Glacier2.JPG]
It is very hard to show the scale of the thing....
One more:
[album 65561 Glacier3.JPG]
The captain of the boat told us that the water pouring out of the middle of this glacier was quite unusual. It looked like a big chunk had recently fallen off right there and revealed this torrent flowing out into the inlet. While we were there, several hunks fell off into the water. Nothing HUGE mind you, but each time it sounded like a big SLAP and boom like a cannon had gone off. I kept wishing someone had put up a little 6 foot figure on the shore near the glacier so we could understand the scale of the thing. I'm guessing we were about 3 football fields away from it at least. You could hear it creaking and cracking. Eerie and awesome. My favorite part was on the far right where there was an area of solid blue ice. Wow.
We hung out there for at least 30 minutes while the captain sort of twirled the boat around very slowly so everyone could get a good look. It was really something.
More pictures in the coming days.
The one thing that effected me the most in Alaska was the fact that it never really got dark at night. I was there over the Summer Solstice. Here is a picture taken at 10:30 at night.
[album 65561 Glacier4.JPG]
I had to lay something over my eyes to get to sleep.
(Oh how demure she is.... she had a knee sock over her face half the 'night'. It was ridiculous.)
Well, the curtains didn't block out enough light. It was very easy to stay up till midnight and your body thought for sure it was only 9 or so. Weirdness personified.
I really have to run. There's very little food in the house, and the dog food bag is empty. I got the royal welcome home from the canines last night. Fiona ignored me. The little rascal.
It's good to be home.
But I'll be dreaming of Alaska.
For a long time.