Tuesday

 

That Wednesday boat ride was so great, it took me four days to describe it.

 

Sunday, we went for a nice calm walk.  First, we drove to Exit Glacier in Kenai Fjords National Park.

 

A ranger told us that dark streak down the middle is because the middle flows fasted than the edges and all the rocks and junk the glacier picks up along the way is funneled to the center.

 

Then we followed a trail through the woods.

 

 

Admiring the view along the way.

 

 

And the moss on the rocks.

 

 

And got right up to the glacier itself.

 

And met a really nice young person from Barrow, visiting friends in Anchorage, who took our picture for us.

 

Every glacier on the Kenai Peninsula is fed by the Harding Ice Fields, a seven-hundred square mile sheet of ice.  Replenished by 400 inches of snowfall a year, it pushes down on forty separate glaciers keeping them moving.  Exit Glacier moves along at about a foot a day.

 

Here is a moment in front of the glacier.

 

Exit Glacier video

 

It wasn’t as windy as it sounds.  It was a little chilly though, in front of the ice.