Glacier Bay Alaska (Gallery)

This bay is located approximately 1100 miles North of Vancouver and is a strictly controlled nature reserve. The Bay is some 60 miles in length and ends at the outfall of the Marjorie and Grand Pacific Glaciers. These glaciers are renowned for calving icebergs as the ice falls away from the glacier and into the sea.

When this bay was first discovered by John Muir in in 1879, it did not exist as such, because the bay was filled with glaciers. Nowadays the glaciers have retreated and access is conditional upon the absence of whales at the mouth of the bay, as well as all ships visiting the bay being accompanied by park ranger(s). This is the kind of place you pinch yourself later and say “did I really do that?”

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