Category: nature and travel

All photos in this post were taken within a few seconds of each other as we flew over the “bottom end” of the Taku Glacier.

Circa 15 minutes later we would be back in Juneau, Alaska’s capital city.

From there, no road will take you out into “wilderness”.

However, by floatplane, an incredible array of “pristine” locations are less than 60 minutes distant – some, less than 30 minutes away from downtown Juneau.

(aka “terminal face”, “terminus”, “foot”)

As at 24 May 2015…

The headline refers to area, not population – nobody makes their home atop the Taku Glacier’s surface, which still covers 650-plus square kilometres.

i took this post’s photo at 7.39 pm on 24 April 2015, circa one minute after “our” floatplane lifted off the Taku River, adjacent to Taku Lodge, and we began the return flight to Juneau.

In less than one more minute – as you will see in the next post – we’d be immediately in front of the Taku Glacier’s enormous snout.

This is the world’s thickest mountain glacier, but….

All three aerial photos in this post were taken within a “window” of little more than one minute.

Their “star” is the same glacier, & fewer than twenty minutes had passed since “our” floatplane had taken off from the fiord immediately in front of downtown Juneau.