On Saturday afternoon, Walt and I boarded another jet boat that took us and 11 other passengers to Le Conte Bay, about 20 miles southeast of Petersburg, at the end of which the breathtaking 150-ft.-tall Le Conte Glacier looms like a towering blue-and-white ice castle above the opaque turquoise water. On the way to the glacier, we stopped to see pictographs on a rock face and to draw VERY close to a waterfall (our boat was able to bring us within inches of the rocks down which the water poured), and as we drew closer to Le Conte Bay we encountered more and more “bergie bits”–pieces of floating ice in every size and shape imaginable, as if a glass blower in their studio had let their imagination run completely wild ! We stopped RIGHT beside several icebergs and could touch their surfaces.
In the next post, I will provide pictures of the glacier, a nearby waterfall (one among dozens), and seals and their pups resting on the ice floes.
Braesail - A grand yacht in the Salish Sea 