Petersburg and Le Conte Glacier

Near Petersburg, Le Conte -the southern most tidewater glacier in North America- drops huge chunks of ancient ice into saltwater.  We were anxious to explore the bay where icebergs run aground in hundreds of feet of water.  Hopefully, we would hear the sounds and even capture a picture of the glacier calving.  To our good fortune, Tonie O was also in Petersburg.  We agreed to go together and to take photos of each other in the ice. 

I can’t say that I was disappointed; but, we didn’t get to the face of the glacier.  The wind and the tide, on the day we were there, were packing the floating ice in toward the face of the glacier.  I loaned David a camera and asked him to take a picture of Wanderer when we got in position in front of one of the bergs.  He did a fine job.  The picture he took and the one of Penny on the bow of Wanderer will long be among our favorites.  We had great fun imagining what the berg shapes reminded us of.