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Glacier paradise and Franklin exhibition
Jun. 7th, 2019 10:19 pmToday was another gorgeous day! Before we left Juneau, we had breakfast with Christine and Jim. It was weird..as we were pulling in, I suddenly remembered that's where dad and I ate when we came on the ferry!! So weird your brain can suddenly remember things like that. We'll definitely have to come back and adventure with her again! I was excited to see which glaciers I could spot, and oh my, it did not disappoint..it was INCREDIBLE. Our B&B told us about Herbert Glacier, which you can walk 9 miles one way to (D:), and I saw it as we flew away from Juneau. Everything was stunningly beautiful. I was wondering what other glaciers we were seeing, when we started flying over one and thought "huh, this one looks familiar." It was when I spotted the cruise ship in front of it that I knew: we were flying by Margerie and Grand Pacific Glaciers in Glacier Bay!!! I might have seen Margerie from the air before, but this was my first time recognizing it! So cool!! Not only that, but I finally saw Hubbard Glacier from the air! I've been dying to see it for years lol. At 76 miles, Hubbard is the longest tidewater glacier in North America..it's 6 miles wide at its terminus, and it's advancing! When I showed mom, she was like "wow, that is a BIG glacier" haha. After that I saw a lot of glaciers I knew: Columbia, Meares, Valdez, Harvard, Yale, Barry, Coxe, Cascade, Knik, etc..it was super awesome!! (Too bad Malaspina was covered by clouds, that glacier is like nothing I've seen before, the glacier that looks like chocolate and ice cream mixed together LOL.) So amazing!
After we landed and got our room at the hotel (which is..ehhh, but I've stayed in worse) and had dinner, we walked over to the museum to see their exhibit about the Franklin Expedition! A guy did a presentation and told us about the different things, and then we walked around and examined the items more closely. Most of the artifacts were from the Erebus, which was found first (2014, and the Terror in 2016..I remember reading it online when they finally found it!)..there was a sextant, plates, cutlery, part of the ship's wheel, etc..but by far the coolest thing was the ACTUAL LETTER written by Crozier and others before they disappeared, found in a cairn by a lieutenant in 1859!! Of course I knew about the letter, but I didn't expect to actually see it!! There aren't many surviving documents from the expedition, so that is super awesome! After that we walked back to the hotel..another successful day :D
Tomorrow is my 30th birthday (omg O_o), and what better way to spend it than taking a boat to Portage Glacier and going to Title Wave Books? You might get sick of glacier pics after this :P
( yet more glaciers under here :P )
After we landed and got our room at the hotel (which is..ehhh, but I've stayed in worse) and had dinner, we walked over to the museum to see their exhibit about the Franklin Expedition! A guy did a presentation and told us about the different things, and then we walked around and examined the items more closely. Most of the artifacts were from the Erebus, which was found first (2014, and the Terror in 2016..I remember reading it online when they finally found it!)..there was a sextant, plates, cutlery, part of the ship's wheel, etc..but by far the coolest thing was the ACTUAL LETTER written by Crozier and others before they disappeared, found in a cairn by a lieutenant in 1859!! Of course I knew about the letter, but I didn't expect to actually see it!! There aren't many surviving documents from the expedition, so that is super awesome! After that we walked back to the hotel..another successful day :D
Tomorrow is my 30th birthday (omg O_o), and what better way to spend it than taking a boat to Portage Glacier and going to Title Wave Books? You might get sick of glacier pics after this :P
( yet more glaciers under here :P )
