August Ice

[urbpan]

We took a boat ride up a fjord that ends in a glacier, to look at the icebergs there.





The less air in the iceberg, the bluer it is.


Freshly calved icebergs still have dirt from their life as part of a glacier.


This is as close as we could (safely?) get to the glacier.


But we could get very close to an iceberg if we wanted!
(This is our guide. Pictures of me standing on an iceberg will come once my dad deals with his millions of photos.)


They even fished a little iceberg out of the fjord and chopped it up to be put into drinks for us. The ancient air escapes the ice, making delicate tinkling sounds. When the engine was shut off, and we stopped talking we could hear the effervescence all around us in the water.


Dad likes his Greenland-shaped ice cube, but he'd prefer a hot chocolate!

Comments

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

i love the 2nd picture! these made me shiver even though it's currently 88 degrees out.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

That's currently my desktop. I think it'll feel good to look at when I'm back enjoying the august heat.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

yes. prepare yourself for immediate melting as you exit logan. it will be 90.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that. I'll wear light pants and pack shorts into my carry-on.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

it is delightful!

[octogirlie.livejournal.com]

I love the shot with the blue ice.

[buboniclou.livejournal.com]

That mirror-image shot really looks otherworldly. I had no idea icebergs could be blue...

[uneko.livejournal.com]

Dude. I'd love to see some of these in nice wallpaper sized images.

You'd be bettering mankind. Honest. XD

beautiful.

[miz-geek.livejournal.com]

Amazing shots, especially number 2. Wow.

[brush-rat.livejournal.com]

Wow. Just wow.

[pagawne.livejournal.com]

I agree.

[urb-banal.livejournal.com]

holy moly that second one is so beautiful... i have a friend who went to the artic circle every few years to paint. Doris McCarthy, she studied under one of the Group of Seven, and like this photo she captured the quiet impendingness of glaciers.

[mas69ter.livejournal.com]

Wow! That's so cool looking! I would love to be in the nice cold and see some ice and snow right about now.

I spent the last week in the Adirondacks. Took many (bad) pictures of a lot of the mushrooms, my god, there were soooooo many mushrooms.

[obie119.livejournal.com]

Wow! So psyched you went to Greenland!!