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| Up at just before dawn, although it is still light from the day before, we are excited to embark on a journey that will last the entire day. On to Tracy Arm and Sawyer Glacier. I have been up and down the passage at least 20-30 times, North and South arm, choosing one over the other depending upon where the pack ice is less dangerous. Big chips of glacier ice from boat size to boulder to pebble. As you get closer to the calving glacier the water can become slush. You may be able to steer yourself safely in, but upon returning the wake paved way you created can close. Beware, our hull is only 5 inches of fiberglass, draw ten feet below the water and some of those chips of ice you are motoring around have another 90% below the water line. Like weaving a thread through a needle, Happily I proclaim, we made it safely in and as we navigated our way safely out, we netted baby chips of glacier ice to whirl inside the blender for cocktails on the fan tail, as we celebrate our day with frozen Glacier Margaritas made with million year old ice and twenty year old tequila! | |
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