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Day 162, June 8th, part 4

On our way to Tracy Arm, the Captain of the Amsterdam decided there was too much ice flowing out of that fjord, so we do not turn north into Tracy Arm, but south to Dawes Glacier at the end of Endicott Arm.  Here you can see a large glacier hanging on the mountain.

And our first ice bergs!  I don’t know what size they have to be to actually be called “ice bergs”, but sense these look like pretty large chunks of ice (we are still several miles away!) I’m going with “ice bergs”.

One of the many sea birds I can’t identify from the angle I had.  It isn’t my favorite bird’s name though…that would be a Rhinoceros Auklet!  It “flys” the same way, running on the surface of the water.

Here is that glacier we saw above.

And is a bit more detail.  Note the waterfalls, and we are still miles away.

A look at our first ice.

One of the literally thousands of waterfalls.

A four photo (vertical) panorama as we approach Dawes Glacier, with the Dailylife Wife.

The well bundled up photographer.  For some reason it is cold by all this ice!

An unobstructed view of Dawes Glacier.

While that water may look rough, you don’t notice it until you see yourself moving…

Actually, it was perfectly smooth on the ship.  I was taking a selfie of us with the camera at full arms length, and I took a few shots to make sure one of them was good!  I guess I didn’t hold my hand in quite the same place for each one…

A convenient place to rest, if you are a seal.

A three photo panorama of Dawes Glacier.  Click on it a couple of times to see if larger, and BACK to return!

More on Dawes Glacier in the next post, including ice falls in motion!

~Curtis in Endicott Arm, Alaska! {!-{>

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