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Exploring Tracy Arm

We could see the brilliant colours of these icebergs from a couple of miles away. Cloudy days are much better than sunny ones for capturing the blues of the glaciers, which get washed out in bright sunlight. At the mouth of Tracy Arm and adjoining Endicott Arm are shoals - the submerged terminal moraines of the Sawyer and Dawes Glaciers - and many of the larger icebergs get trapped there. This photo was shot at 10:04 a.m.

This photograph is ©2006 by Murray Lundberg, and is not to be copied without express permission.
Icebergs at Tracy Arm, Alaska