Columbia Glacier

On Thusday July 1oth,2008 we went on a tour to Columbia Glacier on a boat called Kimberly Cat, the captain of the boat was called Brat.

the weather was sunny,and temperatures was about 36 degree f. on a board were kayakars, we all landed at the glacier shore and parted ways. the pictures above will show how beautiful and amazing Columbia Glacier is and the awesome living creatures and vegetations are found there. the shore at the columbia glacier was very rocky, rocky because the glacier brought them up from the mountains as the eruded from above down to the water shore. glaciasion is known as the number one facture of erosion and the ice moves from up the mountains, it carries along tiny and large rocks and even some minerals as it moves till it were it deposited and better place it could deposit these debris is at the water shore this can be seen when we saw some rock particles hung on the large pieces of ice burgs exibiting what took place as the ice was moving from up the hills to the bottom of the hills.

For the fish family,we saw a Moon Jelly fish also known as aurelia aurita it sizes 16in(40cm)wide. told by white, translucent, bell-shaped bady with fringe of stinging tentacles. and leave on surface of the ocean, commonly washes ashoure following storms, and be careful when handling it because it causes an itchy rash. also, we saw blue mussels known too as Mytilus edulis, size to 4in(10cm) with blue-black shell is oval-shaped and relatively smooth and leaves at intertidal waters and is commonly found throughout the state and can be seen attached to pillings,rocks and other solide objects along the shores. still on the category of shell fish, is the rough keyhole limpet with size of 2in(5cm), has cone-shape shell has side ribs and a hole in the top, found intertidally on kelp and rocks.

looking at the wild life family, we saw a baby spruce tree, wood ferns, Arctic willows,Mash marigold, we saw a beautiful purple shooting stars, caribou lichens,mountain herdal,fungus,all of this were identified at the herdal bay. at the herdal bay, was a wide area of peatbog, a lake with surrounding land compose of peat bog. we went to to bush and we saw a gray like lichen that hung on trees that are said should be at least a hundred years old, they look like old age gray hair on the backs of the trees. Also was the yellow pond lily, found through out most of Alaska, excep wetern coastal area and north of the Brooks Range. i blooming time is july ana August. a large plact with small, thin submerged leaves and large, long-stermmed floating leaves. they are supported by larg, fleshy stems. this plant has been used as a source of food by many native groups. the thick roots.

On our way back, we saw three fasinating sea lions taking a nape, from the looks of things, its like they were two female sea lions and a male and they were trying to prove their point to the male sea lion on who is the most active from the was the female played around the male.

we also saw birds like the seawolf, glaucous-winged gull, Arctic tern. our stay at the herdal bay was short leave because we were very much disturbed by bugs and mosquitos, who gave us no breeding space to explore more and see more.