Lamplugh the Blue

It rains about 152 inches a year here. I shouldn’t be surprised that it’s raining today. Rain and fog have cast a mantle around Glacier Bay so that the Marjerie Glacier and the Grand Pacific Glacier aren’t sporting their usual colors. Nevertheless, the bay has an ethereal beauty because of a layer of fog that enshrouds it. Although the Marjerie Glacier is whiter, cleaner and prettier, the dirty Grand Pacific Glacier is the grimy monster that scoured out the fjord through which we sail. Once over a mile thick, these rivers of ice have receded as the world has become warmer.

One old friend we saw is the Lamplugh Glacier, often called “Lamplugh the Blue.” Especially on a cloudy day like today, the ice absorbs all other colors to make this lovely three-dimensional, deep blue color. There’s no other blue quite like it.Read more