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Thursday February 09, 2012
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ooooooooooooooo, ahhhhhhhhhhhhh
what IS that? it’s like a magnified diamond or hill of diamonds. makes me want to have a cocktail on the rocks.
it’s a big hunk of glacier floating in an Alaskan lake. glad you enjoyed.
well thank you, it’s really stunning. is that haze, mist or snowcaps behind it? just beautiful.
I believe those are clouds sitting above the actual glacier which was at the other end of Glacier Lake about two and a half miles away. The photo closeup is from a chunk of glacier floating at our end of the lake.
that explains it. it’s a depth-of-field thing and that’s part of why it’s so magical.
I can’t really get an idea of scale in the photo, but is it possible that that little squiggle right in the center is an ice worm? (I thought they were a myth until the ranger at the ranger station at the entrance to Denali showed them to me once.)
It’s funny how the mind works. When I stared at that chunk of ice my mind went back to when I used to ice-skate on the frozen canals in Holland. It was so cold my hands and feet froze…brrr
I don’t believe its an ice worm. This was a small chunk of glacier, maybe 30 cubic feet. The ice itself was partially composed of thick half-dollar sized chunks that fit together like a puzzle.