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Alaska Glacier Bay National
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Johns Hopkins Inlet in Glacier Bay National Park
At the end of Johns Hopkins Inlet is the Johns Hopkins
Glacier. Johns Hopkins Glacier is one of the most active
Glaciers in Glacier Bay Park and is also one of the only
glaciers that is actually growing in size. It is widening,
thickening and moving forward. Johns Hopkins is pushing
forward at a rate of almost 4,000 feet / 1,200 m per year.
Although we had seen a number of ice chunks and "bergys"
(mini-icebergs) along our journeys this area was completely
covered by ice and we had to stand on watch to avoid the
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Fang on ice patrol in Glacier Bay National Park
The entire crew of Mad Dog Voyager was on iceberg patrol,
looking out for ice and taking in everything around us. Even
Fang, our
Bengal cat, was roused from his daily routine of
sleeping to head topside and pull his time on ice patrol. |
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Travelling the ice packs in
Glacier Bay National Park
While most of the ice checks and bergys are of a smaller
size, some of these
bergys are super-sized and lok like
mini-frozen islands. These bergys can last for over a week
in the water before disintegrating and dissolving into
nothing. |
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Gilman Glacier in Glacier Bay National Park
To the immediate left of Johns Hopkins Glacier is Gilman
Glacier. Gilman Glacier is located high up the mountain
edge. In this area of dramatic glaciers, Gilman Glacier
doesn't touch the waters edge. Ever-moving and pushing
forward, bits of ice, rocks, gravel and water work their way
down to the water. |
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Johns Hopkins Glacier in Glacier Bay National Park
This is Johns Hopkins Glacier, the most active glacier that
is approachable on the water. As with most of the Glaciers,
great caution must be taken and a safe distance maintained
when approaching the glacier head. Johns Hopkins Glacier
measures almost 250 ft / 75 m tall above the water and is
estimated to stretch 200 ft / 60 m below the waters surface.
During our couple of hours floating about here, we saw
several major chunks of ice and glacier collapse into the
water. The sounds of creaking, cracking, popping and
grinding of ice is ever present and we just wait to see the
next chunk crash down. |
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Stuck in the ice in Glacier Bay National Park?
What to do? It looks as though we are slowly being
crowded in by the ice flow. The ice however slowly was
floating out of the inlet. The ice flow moves in time
with the rise and fall of the high and low tide. During
low tide much of the ice flows out towards the Inlet
opening, melting and shrinking on the way. During high
tide the ice is pushed back into the inlet and creates
and ice jam. Slow and deliberate navigation is required
to avoid the largest of the ice chunks. Heading out in
the
catamaran inflatable dingy to make the pictures was a great idea at the
time, but... |
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