This and the next post’s photos were both taken within a “window” of circa 30 seconds, about 3 minutes after I took the photo which appeared in #26 of this series.
The picture above was taken on 24 May, 2015.
It depicts an ongoing reality in Alaska: for more than a few years, ice fields have been thinning, and once-massive glaciers have been receding/diminishing.
As glaciers lose so many billions of their formerly-frozen tonnes, much of the land that used to sit beneath them is on the rise – rebounding, literally.
In some places – the location shown here among them, I think – glacier-adjacent forest fringes are advancing.
By 2015, this particular glacier was already considerably-diminished, but to our Australian eyes it still looked enormous…as the next post’s will show.
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