{"id":3306,"date":"2018-08-30T17:18:19","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T16:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=3306"},"modified":"2018-08-30T17:37:59","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T16:37:59","slug":"south-sawyer-glacier-tracey-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=3306","title":{"rendered":"South Sawyer Glacier, Tracey Arm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Noted California naturalist, John Muir, visited the South Sawyer Glacier in 1880. How did they visit these icy places before Gore-Tex? He camped on these boulders next to the iceberg.<\/p>\n

The glacier was calving, giving our guide, Nikki, a few worries about her newbie kayakers, getting too close to a \u2018growler\u2019, or a rolling iceberg, which could take us with it. They are beautiful, often totally compressed to a color of deep blue.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Laying on the ice at South Sawyer Glacier and also plentiful in the water with us, are Harbour seals. Young seals in the water, heads bobbing up with a piercing look, then ducking away. On the glacier are dozens of Mama seals, with their newborns. The glaciers are so treacherous a terrain, the Mamas and babies are safe from predators. Wolves or bears won\u2019t venture onto this erratic ice field.<\/p>\n

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Seals and Pups<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Some of the icebergs are so big, they are like a hill that can almost hide a ship.<\/p>\n

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We paddled and played with the inquisitive seals.<\/p>\n

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South Sawyers Glacier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Noted California naturalist, John Muir, visited the South Sawyer Glacier in 1880. How did they visit these icy places before Gore-Tex? He camped on these boulders next to the iceberg. The glacier was calving, giving our guide, Nikki, a few worries about her newbie kayakers, getting too close to a \u2018growler\u2019, or a rolling iceberg, … Continue reading South Sawyer Glacier, Tracey Arm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[90,161,162],"class_list":["post-3306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-2","tag-seals","tag-south-sawyer-glacier","tag-tracey-arm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VxXq-Rk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3306"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3316,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions\/3316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}