Nature Photography, Travel
Mother and Baby Harbour Seals at the LeConte Glacier, Alaska
Wildlife Trekker May challenge: Baby Wild Animals
The frigid air sliced at any exposed skin. Icebergs, which looked as if they were lit by an inner blue fire, bobbed everywhere amongst the slushy water. Freezing rain pelted my fingers while I braved the cold for a few seconds to adjust my camera settings.
I feared for the hull of the flat-bottomed boat we were traversing this icy fjord in, but I trusted in intrepid Captain Mark, who seemed to know exactly how to maneuver over the miles of water between four and fourteen feet deep, while avoiding chunks of ice. Twice, we had sucked up a stick and had to reverse to spit it back out.
Now, we had entered the mouth of the fjord, on the way to see the LeConte Glacier. The radar on the screen showed the depth dropping abruptly to three hundred feet, then to eight hundred feet.
I had heard about how icebergs and glaciers glow in the rain, but we’d never seen it before. Honestly, to say that they glow is an understatement. It’s more like they are lit from within.
