Glacier Bay Part 10

It can be really hard to tell scale in these photos, so I was thrilled when I saw a boat. Keep in mind that's no little ski boat, that's a big boat with a fully enclosed cabin on the deck, yet you can barely see it because it is so tiny compared to the glacier.

If you look at the next photo and wonder how often chunks break off, it's pretty often. The naturalist said the face of the glacier loses an average of about a foot a day. It may not sound like much, but think back to the shear size of the glacier in the pictures with the tiny dot of a boat out in front of it. We saw several chunks fall off while we were there, it was really cool.

Glacier Bay Part 9

This glacier has had so many mud and rock slides come down on it that it's hard to see. It also makes the water around the glacier really muddy instead of the pretty turquoise.

Glacier Bay Part 8

Glacier Bay Part 7

Glacier Bay Part 6

There is actually a cave down at the bottom of the glacier in this photo and the melt water coming off the glacier is coming out of the cave like a river, which you can kind of make out in the middle of the photo.

Here's some close ups of the cave with the river of melt water coming out of it.