The beautiful mountains
and the mirror-like water made for fantastic pictures of Meares Glacier. |
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| The Meares
Glacier is a large tidewater glacier at the head of Unakwik Inlet in Chugach
National Forest, Alaska. The glacier is one of the many in Prince William
Sound, and is about 79.6 miles east of Anchorage. The glacier is named for
eighteenth century British naval captain John Meares. The face of the glacier
you see below is one mile wide where it calves into the inlet. |
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THE GLACIER shown below
is about one-mile wide. |
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Below: The two RV Gypsies love Alaska,
and enjoyed this cruise, despite how cold it was. |
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| Below: Meares Glacier
is an advancing glacier so it is scouring the shoreline, pushing trees out
of its way as it moves forward. |
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| Below: Meares Glacier,
located at the end of a long, narrow fjord in northern Prince William Sound
has an ice face about 200 feet high. |
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| Below: The two RV
Gypsies felt privileged to watch caving. Large chunks of ice fell into the
water, followed by a loud roar, and then waves rocked the boat. A video
was taken, but Karen Duquette does not know how to post it here. |
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Below: ICE FIELDS THE
BOAT HAD TO MANEUVER THROUGH |
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Below: Looking straight
down the side of the boat at the ice fields. |
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| Below:
The "ice fields" shown below were NOT there on the way TO the
glacier. The incoming tide and the glacier caving changed the look of
Prince William Sound. Amazing! |
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