Glacier paradise and Franklin exhibition
Today 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
Bye bye Mendenhall Glacier *sniff*
SO PRETTYYY
The glacier on the right is Herbert
Cool moraines!!
I was worried I'd go snow blind from all that brightness haha
Grand Pacific Glacier (the dirty one) and Margerie to the right of it, oh yay!! I'm glad that cruise ship was there :P
Margerie is awesome :D :D
Hubbard Glacier!! It ends in the very amusingly named Disenchantment Bay haha
Wow, THAT is a huge glacier haha
Columbia Glacier
Meares Glacier!! Fun times out at that one :D
College Fjord, the biggest glacier being Harvard. I loved the reflection in the water too!
OMG SO PRETTY. To the left of College Fjord and under the wing are Cascade, Barry, and Coxe Glaciers
Ready for the Franklin exhibit!
Part of the wheel from the Erebus, wow
Ships' bells are powerful for some reason..
An Inuit carving of 17th and 18th century European ships!
Cloth archaeologists found when they dug up the three bodies buried on one of the islands..I definitely remember one of the books mentioning the red cloth around one of the bodies..wow
The actual letters from Crozier and others!! The light was low (probably to preserve it), so that's why it's kinda dark (one lady saw me trying to take a picture and pointed to a picture of the letter that was beside the real one, so it would turn out better..I'm sure it would, but it's still not the ACTUAL letter!)
I wonder who wore these..
Did Crozier eat off of this???
Fancy compass
OMG A SLEGDE. You have no idea how loudly I gasped when I saw this LOL
A medal from the Terror
Weirdly, my grandma had a plate with the same design as the one in the middle!
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
Bye bye Mendenhall Glacier *sniff*
SO PRETTYYY
The glacier on the right is Herbert
Cool moraines!!
I was worried I'd go snow blind from all that brightness haha
Grand Pacific Glacier (the dirty one) and Margerie to the right of it, oh yay!! I'm glad that cruise ship was there :P
Margerie is awesome :D :D
Hubbard Glacier!! It ends in the very amusingly named Disenchantment Bay haha
Wow, THAT is a huge glacier haha
Columbia Glacier
Meares Glacier!! Fun times out at that one :D
College Fjord, the biggest glacier being Harvard. I loved the reflection in the water too!
OMG SO PRETTY. To the left of College Fjord and under the wing are Cascade, Barry, and Coxe Glaciers
Ready for the Franklin exhibit!
Part of the wheel from the Erebus, wow
Ships' bells are powerful for some reason..
An Inuit carving of 17th and 18th century European ships!
Cloth archaeologists found when they dug up the three bodies buried on one of the islands..I definitely remember one of the books mentioning the red cloth around one of the bodies..wow
The actual letters from Crozier and others!! The light was low (probably to preserve it), so that's why it's kinda dark (one lady saw me trying to take a picture and pointed to a picture of the letter that was beside the real one, so it would turn out better..I'm sure it would, but it's still not the ACTUAL letter!)
I wonder who wore these..
Did Crozier eat off of this???
Fancy compass
OMG A SLEGDE. You have no idea how loudly I gasped when I saw this LOL
A medal from the Terror
Weirdly, my grandma had a plate with the same design as the one in the middle!