Albatrossity starts us out this week with one more trip to Alaska, and the blue of the water in the first three photos has me wishing I could be there. Next week it looks like we’ll be back in flyover country. ~WaterGirl
But first, announcements. I really would like to have Paris Week, and I just received the first submission! Is anyone else up for that? Do you have photos? If so, please chime in with a comment.
Also, First Timers week, aka Virgins Week, went so well last time that I would like to do it again in August, so if you’ve never submitted to On The Road before, come on down!
And now, back to Albatrossity!
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Our other adventure in Alaska was a train trip to Seward followed by an all-day boat excursion on Resurrection Bay to see birds, mammals, and glaciers. If you ever get a chance to do this, grab it. Not just for the experiences and the sights and sounds, but also because glaciers are becoming an ever more rare commodity on our warming planet, and they are amazing to see and hear up close!
Bear Glacier is one of the many glaciers that end up in Resurrection Bay, and it is a massive beast. In former decades apparently one could take a boat right up to the glacier’s face, but it has receded quite a bit, and now the land in front of the ice has trees and shrubs blocking both access and view. But from across the bay it is still quite impressive. If you look very closely you will see that there is a bird in this picture as well, a Bald Eagle silhouetted against the glacial ice on the left side of the image.
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