What a great trip to Tracy Arm! There are two boats that go there. One costs $99, and the other $110. We took the latter, and it was well worth the extra $11. We were on a comfortable, fast yacht with a pleasant captain, who let us hang around the bridge. Lunch was included, which it wasn't on the other tour. Best of all, we went right up within 1/8 mile of the glacier! To get there, the boat had to plow through a bunch of floating chunks of ice (small blue icebergs that had fallen off the blue glacier). The water temperature was 32.5 degrees Fahrenheit! Hundreds of little seals were loafing on the ice or swimming in the water. The view was overwhelming! It was the greatest experience yet!
The captain knew all about Swanson Bay. He said they had made brick there. That's the last thing we would have guessed. So our curiosity was finally satisfied.
He also remembered a woman being crushed to death by a falling chunk of glacier four or five years ago at Mendenhall, so when we got back to Juneau, we went to the beautiful new public library and looked at the microfiched local newspaper for the summers of 1987 and 1988 (July through September), but we couldn't find anything about Roy's sister-in-law, Thais, who was crushed by a glacier four or five years ago. We didn't know the exact date.
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