This chunk of ice is surfacing after breaking off from the part of the glacier that is underwater.
The deep blue color is from the ice being so compressed within the glacier that the oxygen was squeezed out of it!
They seem to slowly lose that blue coloring after they float away and start to melt.
Here is a different chunk of ice. Â The blue looks great in front of the glacier-scoured rocky valley wall.
Something a little smaller at three feet or so across. Â The others are those Suburban and school bus sized ice cubes.
This is that first one again, but it has rolled over. Â That is one of the things that make icebergs dangerous: they tend to roll over without warning, and you don’t want to be on or by one when it does!
The Dailylife Wife photographing waterfalls and other things.
These seals obviously didn’t get the OSHA memo about dangerous icebergs…
~Curtis in Endicott Arm, Alaska! {!-{>
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