Tracy Arm Fjord

The whole trip we had been hearing how it was unseasonably warm. We certainly felt it when we wanted to be wearing shorts! Sometimes we had advantages because of it. The Tracy Arm Fjord was one place we had advantages because of the warm weather. If it would have been cooler there would have been more snow and more ice in the water. At least that's what I got from listening to the captain. There was a bunch of ice in the water in the fjord but not much that was very big. Here's a picture of one of the bigger pieces I saw.

I learned that a fjord is a path carved by a glacier. We took this path to see the glacier at the end. Here's where we came through and then left by. (You can see some of the ice in the water.)

We went into the fjord before breakfast. We went down to breakfast so we could get a seat and see the glacier as we ate. It worked. Here was our view for breakfast. (We have very few decent pictures with Ben in them. He was either moving or hiding his face.)

Here are some pictures that show how close we were to the land and the glacier.

The ice is blue because it's really old snow and doesn't have any air bubbles in it. The black is from snow melt.

Lastly a bunch of cool pictures from that morning. Notice the nice waterfalls. Supposedly they were better because of the warm temperatures and the ice melt.