Changing face of Franz Joseph Glacier
Tons and tons of ice moving, creaking, melting, changing. Franz Joseph glacier facinated me. The ice that I could see was old, stretching like a cats paw into the temperate forest. The information board showed how men in top hats and women in long dresses were rowed around the ice bergs to see the glacier. I was now standing in T-shirt and shorts in the same spot that photo was taken. A women who visited the glacier in 1972 said the glacier had receded so far back that it could only be seen from the air. Yet I could look straight into its mouth and watch it spitting out old melted ice.
How things change! And how disconterting that change can be. What was, isn’t anymore; and what is, will change again.
Don’t worry about it disappearing. It’s been growing again .
Interesting pic though, love it.
One of my favorite places in NZ. It is amazing how much cleaner the glacier appears the higher you climb
http://www.sensibletraveladvice.com/2011/01/hiking-and-swimming-franz-josef-glacier.html
Beautiful photo
Wow! That’s pretty cool that you can actually see the melted ice being spit out.
Interesting though but once it is gone that all ..will it grow again ? Wonderful pic !!
Interesting but, now I’m wondering if it’s growing or shrinking these days.
The glaciers face quite a challenge. I was so lucky walk on the Perito Moreno glacier. This glacier is one that is in equilibrium..which is excellent news! Great post!
I love the noises a glacier makes – it feels like a living, breathing thing. Hard to imagine the history in some of that ice.
Great shot. I’d love to visit this.
Thanks for posting to Travel Photo Thursday.
Glaciers are some of those amazing sights around the world that should be seen before they are totally gone. I hope it’s not too late for me when I finally get the chance to visit one.
Interesting post and photo — you’re right that change can be disconcerting. I’d like to hear the “creaking” of a glacier someday.
I agree with Cathy, I’d love to hear that creaking.
I believe it’s still growing. Like so many things on the Earth, it stubbornly refuses to cooperate with the climate alarmist predictions.