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This blog is about Glacier Bay and College Fjords...

Great videos at end of this blog!  

Glacier Bay

"From the bottom of the deepest glacial fjord to the summit of its highest peak, Glacier Bay encompasses some of our continent's most amazing scenery and wildness. It is a land reborn, a world returning to life, a living lesson in resilience. If ever we needed a place to intrigue and inspire us, this is it. Glacier Bay is a homeland, a living laboratory, a national park, a designated wilderness, a biosphere reserve, and a world heritage site. It's a marine park, where great adventure awaits by boating into inlets, coves and hideaway harbors. It's also a land park, with its snow-capped mountains, spectacular glaciers, and emerald–green forests. From the summit to sea, Glacier Bay's wildness is remote, dynamic and intact."

Here is more information about Glacier Bay and excerpt above is from this link:  http://www.nps.gov/glba/whats-so-special.htm

The convergence of 5 or 6 glaciers...see the large ribbons?

Convergence of 2 or 3 glaciers? 

Sights as we cruised past the various glaciers in Glacier Bay..

Waterfalls along the way....

College Fjords

"College Fjord is a fjord located in the northern sector of Prince William Sound in the U.S. state of Alaska. The fjord contains five tidewater glaciers (glaciers that terminate in water), five large valley glaciers, and dozens of smaller glaciers, most named after renowned East Coast colleges (women's colleges for the NW side, and men's colleges for the SE side). College Fjord was discovered in 1899 during the Harriman Expedition, at which time the glaciers were named. The expedition included a Harvard and an Amherst professor, and they named many of the glaciers after elite colleges. According to Bruce Molina, author of Alaska's Glaciers, "They took great delight in ignoring Princeton."[1]

In 1964 College Fjord was the epicenter of the Good Friday earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history. It is a popular destination for cruise ships. From one place, it is possible to see eight of College Fjords Glaciers at once."

Check this out regarding College Fjords and excerpt above is from this link:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_Fjord

Harvard Glacier--convergence of 26 glaciers...1.5 miles long...

A closer view of Harvard Glacier...this Glacier has a total of 400 vertical feet of ice...approximately 100 feet of ice is below the surface.

See the black dot below?  It's an eagle! 

Enjoy the brief videos below!

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Disclaimer:  I am an amateur videographer!  It is really difficult to get videos of the glaciers calving (ice falling) as by the time you see the ice falling and find it in your camera's viewfinder--the ice has hit the water...

The voices you hear are Gary and LuAnn...

Love,

Ellie and Gary

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