Safe haven from orcas and sealions to raise her pup
"Iceberg dead ahead Captain!"
Ice Sculptures
Ever changing works of art
I wonder how old those rocks are that are lodged in this ice?
Moose tracks on the beach
Room for one more?
LeConte Glacier from afar
A bit of rain and sunshine today! We make arrangements with Breakaway Adventures for a pick up in Petersburg to go into LeConte Glacier. It a 6 hour day on the jet boat into the Glacier from the other side. We stop at one of the channel markers where we see 7 or 8 stellar sea lions jockeying for position on the buoy. They are not happy with the intrusion. The bull and his harem make all sorts of snarling noises at us to let us know that we are in their space. We stop briefly at an island where we see a dead porcupine, moose tracks and Marko tries eating some “Puff” kelp. There is lots of greenery on land and a few flowers, mainly ‘paintbrush’ and “lupin”. There is quite a bit of ice in the outer bay of LeConte so we only get in part way to see the glacier. We all get chunk of souvenir ice to take back with us for Martini’s! For the group who have been in here before we are disappointed for the rest of the group that did not get to see and hear the glacier “Calving” and to hear the accompanying thunder sound when the ice chunks hit the water. We feel it is probably too early and still too cold for a lot of calving to be seen as the previous two times that Mike and I have been in there, its been mid July.
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