Today we visited a pair of perhaps the most spectacular fjords in all of fjord-rent Southeastern Alaska.
Tracy Arm is justifiably famous for its astonishing scenery. We traveled by miles of soaring cliffs to reach the blue walls of two tidewater glaciers. Better yet, time and tide conspired to allow us access to seldom-visited Ford's Terror. Guarding this large inlet is a narrow-necked entrance, usually churning with tide-driven currents. We passed this barrier at high tide, and once inside we admired the incomparable work of glacial ice on granite. Imposing cliffs towered above the waterline, and dropped unseen hundreds of feet beneath our tiny Zodiacs. These walls were polished and gouged by the rocky debris that once lay imbedded in the underside of the glacier. Rain aplenty accentuated thousands of waterfalls that plunge into Ford's Terror. Some tinkled like a gentle shower, others pounded like some mighty industrial machine. We stopped at one cataract that grinds down through a narrow channel. Here, a pair of Zodiacs provided each other scale in a vast landscape. All of us felt fortunate to have seen a place that stands out in a land of superlatives!
Tracy Arm is justifiably famous for its astonishing scenery. We traveled by miles of soaring cliffs to reach the blue walls of two tidewater glaciers. Better yet, time and tide conspired to allow us access to seldom-visited Ford's Terror. Guarding this large inlet is a narrow-necked entrance, usually churning with tide-driven currents. We passed this barrier at high tide, and once inside we admired the incomparable work of glacial ice on granite. Imposing cliffs towered above the waterline, and dropped unseen hundreds of feet beneath our tiny Zodiacs. These walls were polished and gouged by the rocky debris that once lay imbedded in the underside of the glacier. Rain aplenty accentuated thousands of waterfalls that plunge into Ford's Terror. Some tinkled like a gentle shower, others pounded like some mighty industrial machine. We stopped at one cataract that grinds down through a narrow channel. Here, a pair of Zodiacs provided each other scale in a vast landscape. All of us felt fortunate to have seen a place that stands out in a land of superlatives!
