Hubbard Glacier post 9 of 16
June 28, 2018
Our first destination after boarding the cruise ship was Hubbard Glacier. It sits at the end of Yakutat Bay, farther up into Disenchantment Bay. It was named after the explorer who was looking for a continuation of the Inside Passage. Hubbard (the glacier) is joined by Valerie Glacier just before they end at the Bay. You will notice Russell Fjord on the map; that was his first name:
Somewhere near Yakatut (the city) the ship had to take on a local captain who knows the waters and conditions... an actual glacier captain. He caught a ride out to our ship and I shot the Uber as he pulled away from us:
Once the PA system announced the glacier coming into view, the bridge got to be a pretty popular place:
I was able to get further out, on the bow, but still had to contend with shooting around those pesky blue plastic sheets. Here's one of the early shots on approach:
The scale is so vast, it's hard to tell exactly what one is looking at. Here's another shot on approach, a bit closer, now with some definition in the glacier wall:
For a little size comparison, I included another cruise ship lurking about in Disenchantment Bay:
The glacier is over one hundred feet tall.
Here's a closer-in shot. The ice at the edge of the bay has descended from the top (mountain end) of the glacier, and it is 400 years old. That's how long the trip is, both in time and in distance. Notice the more intense blue tones in some of the ice... that's due to extreme compression, so that ice has "come up" from farther down in the glacier mass.
The hundred feet of vertical we can see is supported by two hundred feet of ice below the surface of the water:
Stepping back once again, as we departed from this experience, I captured one more frame with a little bit of reflection on the surface of the bay:
Our first destination after boarding the cruise ship was Hubbard Glacier. It sits at the end of Yakutat Bay, farther up into Disenchantment Bay. It was named after the explorer who was looking for a continuation of the Inside Passage. Hubbard (the glacier) is joined by Valerie Glacier just before they end at the Bay. You will notice Russell Fjord on the map; that was his first name:
Somewhere near Yakatut (the city) the ship had to take on a local captain who knows the waters and conditions... an actual glacier captain. He caught a ride out to our ship and I shot the Uber as he pulled away from us:
Once the PA system announced the glacier coming into view, the bridge got to be a pretty popular place:
I was able to get further out, on the bow, but still had to contend with shooting around those pesky blue plastic sheets. Here's one of the early shots on approach:
The scale is so vast, it's hard to tell exactly what one is looking at. Here's another shot on approach, a bit closer, now with some definition in the glacier wall:
For a little size comparison, I included another cruise ship lurking about in Disenchantment Bay:
The glacier is over one hundred feet tall.
Here's a closer-in shot. The ice at the edge of the bay has descended from the top (mountain end) of the glacier, and it is 400 years old. That's how long the trip is, both in time and in distance. Notice the more intense blue tones in some of the ice... that's due to extreme compression, so that ice has "come up" from farther down in the glacier mass.
The hundred feet of vertical we can see is supported by two hundred feet of ice below the surface of the water:
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