Thursday, September 30, 2010

Grewingk Glacier and Lake

Just a small glimpse ....there is a float plane (tiny dot on right) that was struggling to take off from the Lake...it may look small but it's noisy I'm afraid.



Face of Glacier starts to come into view at around 21 secs and then you can see the face.
It's riddled with crevices. A sightseeing plane that was forced to land on the Glacier a few weeks after this was taken did well to remain unscathed (Well the plane flipped but everyone was rescued without serious injuries)see here

from an old gravestone

If you hold your nose to the Grindstone
and you leave it there long enough,
Then soon you'll say
there's no such things
as brooks that babble
and birds that sing,
these three will all your world compose,
just you, the stone and your poor old nose.

(from memory so may not be word perfect)