Ice, Ice Baby

My first flight upon reaching Alaska was conducted south of Cordova up into the Copper River valley. We flew up close and personal with a few glaciers that day. Above is Child's Glacier. On
the right side near the center you can see what's called the "Million Dollar Bridge." It was a railroad bridge built to haul copper out of the mountains to the port at Cordova and it's the end of the road out of Cordova now. It's a bridge to nowhere as the road ends on the northeast side of the bridge.


Below is a shot approaching Bering Glacier from the coast. The bay has quite a few bergs and bergy bits from calving of the glacier. For a Florida boy, it was hard to believe it was August, but the bugs on the windscreen reminded me of home.