I love this ice cave opening at the edge of the glacier. So nice and ominous.
For scale, the cave can be seen along with another sight-seeing boat off to starboard.
As I was taking that shot, we heard huge crack and spun around to see a large chunk falling into the water.
One of the interesting things to watch was when the claving would take place and then watch the Kittiwakes zoom in to search for any morsels broken loose or stirred up after the ice hits the water.
More car-sized ice slides off of the terminus and causes a splash.
A larger fall from higher up was much more dramatic!
We knew that more ice would fall and remembered that our room was now facing the glacier so we hurried up to the balcony to check out that view. Here, Carolyn uses the Flip to record some calving.
On the way up to the room we missed a big calving but we were rewarded with the biggest event of our stop before heading away.
I have a bunch of sequence shots of these calvings but they will have to wait for the planned family DVD.
The stop did not disappoint at all. The sounds of that cracking ice will be with me forever. Eerie and beautiful. Could sit there forever.
Next up: Birds! Promise.
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