Alaska Part IX
Jul. 6th, 2007 01:03 pmWednesday (yes, still only Wednesday) - Portage Glacier
On our way up, before
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So about Portage Glacier: When the Portage Glacier Visitors Center was built, it was basically abutting the glacier. Now, you have to take a short boat ride across a brand new lake to even see the ever-retreating hunk of ice. This works out great for the visitors center, because now they can charge people to go see it. Driving to the glacier was fantastic. There are lots of glaciers around there. Really pretty drive.
So... we step inside the Visitors Center where it's full of tourists. And I mean hotel tourists, not hostel tourists. Lots of overweight suburbanites who I haven't seen the likes of since the airport.
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ASIDE: Throughout the trip, everyone kept assuming we were either dating or married - especially at Chabad whenOkay, so that aside, let's go on. I pull overarctic_alpine wore a bandana. Even friends of ours asked if we were going out when I told them the two of us were going on a trip together. It wasn't really annoying, more interesting, really. Can't two friends of different genders/sexes go on a trip together? Anyway, at this point I didn't think it was necessary to correct the nice Brooklynite.
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Anyway, one coffee later, we get on the boat, and set out on the lake. The water was that same shade of white-blue we saw in Resurrection Bay. Same consistency, too. The forest ranger aboard the boat informed everyone that it was due to fine particulate that the glacier grinds from the rock face as it makes its way down the mountain. We learned a lot. I was really happy to mix in this type of learning as a complement to the more experiential learning we'd been doing before.
Hmmm... I wish I had time to explain to all of you about glaciers, but that'll have to wait for my next entry...