Nature in all her glory

The area was so quite and breathtaking, except for the sounds of the glacier, it was very serene!

Bear Glacier off of Resurrection bay near Seward and the Kenai Fjords in Alaska

Aialik Glacier- ok, you will see a lot of this one!

Goodwin Glacier

Icefields and an estimated 100,000 glaciers cover over 5 percent of Alaska's surface.

Remember, this is a mile wide, so how tall do you think it is?  Look at some of those crevasses!

Snow can mask deep crevasses in glaciers.  Ice crumbling off the face of a glacier also can be dangerous.

Holgate glacier

It was so pretty with the mist hovering above the tops of the mountains!

The glacier is over a mile wide

It does not look like it, but that is because some of the mountains are very large

Size and depth perception were always a bit off in Alaska, since there was so much of everything and many things were so large.

Here is another rock on the left side, notice how clean it is at the start of our visit

The colors were so blue in some places!

Receding glaciers  are melting faster than they are advancing.

Incredible peaks, fingers and crevasses

Very large cracks, look close at the base, you can see some of the ice crashing into the water and creating waves

Here, you can see some of the white ice and show that has dropped off and landed at the base

It was interesting to see how the glaciers wind their ways through valleys and  finally down into the water

The Harding Icefield in Kenai Fjords National Park covers 300 square miles.

Ok here is our winged brown triangle? Maybe one of our bird friends

Here are a few critters perched on the rocks

It was interesting to see how the ice twisted and turned to stretch out over the base of the mountain as it slid down into the ocean

Tidewater glaciers are Glaciers that reach the sea.

Remember, the dots in the front are the sea lions, so  that crack is incredibly huge!

this huge crack is ready to "calve"

It almost looks like hands with fingers in some sections!

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.

The little brown dots in the front are the sea lions, just to give you perspective

Also keep an eye on that large jagged section to the left of the rocks. Notice the rocks are barely covered with snow,

wait until you go to the calving section. . . . .  .

Ok look close in the upper right section

There is a bird. This bird continued to circle back and forth in front of the glacier, almost daring the ice to fall on it and hit it. It was funny to watch. Many times I thought it was going to get hit? Not sure why the bird continued it's crazy antics? Maybe it had a nest? Was finding things as the ice crashed into the water? It was not leaving though and did not appeared scared by the crashing ice! As you can see, the native sea lions were not scared a bit also!

Here is a waterfall behind our glacier, probably from some of the melting of higher sections of our glacier

Pedersen Glacier

Sargent Icefield

Portage Glacier. Several hanging glaciers can be observed in the mountains on the drive down to Seward.

Ok look real close at these next two pictures

What is the brown triangular shaped item in the center?

A bird?

OK what is this in the upper left? It appears to be a dead Caribou or deer near the base of the glacier? Was is trapped in the ice and then when the ice crashed, it fell over with it? Not sure?