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	Here is the Aialik glacier in the Kenai Fjords National Park
Just look at all those spires, cracks and incredible ice caves	Notice the dark line in the center of the glacier Sometimes this dark stripe can be seen running down the middle of a glacier. That is pulverized rock that was pushed up between two merging glaciers. Keep an eye on this line, by the end of the session, much of the line is covered with crashing ice and snow! Also, look really close at the base, that dark brown line to the mid right is our sea lion and there is a bird flying above the ice cave at the water line just to give you a perspective as to size!
The sounds of the glacier were incredible. The tour guide shut off the boat and made everyone sit in total silence for 15 minutes to just listen and enjoy the sounds it made as it groaned and protested profusely! Sometimes, it was as loud as a gunshot! We took digital videos, so you can see and hear the glacier, but those are very large files and are only available on the CD!	Our bird either daring nature, or trying to get into the ice cave? This bird would not quit!

Here is our bird again, notice the snow building up at the base of the glacier	Just awesome! Look how high the splashes go	You can see some of the chunks of ice and snow falling midair as the camera captures what is too quick for our eyes to really see as well

Here is some of the fallen snow and ice building up at the base- look closely at the base to the mid left? What is that object? It appears to be an animal? possibly a caribou or deer?


	Again, see the pile ups of fallen ice and show after our incredible show!
	Here is the left side of the glacier again check out the rock, relatively clean at the start	Look at the swirls in the ice and all the incredible patterns that it makes in the glacier
Here is the beginning of some ice and snow crashing	More

Wow. . . . . . . . . . . Look in the front on the surface of the water at all the new ice that is floating	our rock is almost covered	Look at the deep lines

Our sea lions resting and playing near our rock and ice cropping at the right side of the glacier. This is where the extremely large calving occurred during our session. It was incredible and brought tears to our eyes.		Look at that big shelf of ice that is ready to fall off over the rock. You can see the large cracks and the lighter color in the ice

	Two birds daring fate!	Here is our bird again, checking out all the damage. Remember the beginning of the session, this rock was not covered with all with snow and ice. The large section of ice crashed !This is on the right side of the glacier
Look at how large the ice overhangs on the base of the mountain		ok, look, a large portion of our line is missing and covered with snow and ice!
Receding glaciers are melting faster than they are advancing. Is that Nature's plan or are we speeding up the process?