Portage Glacier - July 15, 2010

On Thursday morning we left Seward and drove north to meet the Griffins, Sandy and Bob and Kay's sister, Shirley. They had gone to Anchorage early that day so Sandy could have a medical consultation about future care. I won't go into detail over the her condition.
The Doctor's visit went longer than expected so Donna and I arrived at Portage much earlier than they. We drove on the road that leads to Whittier, AK, going east, to the Portage Glacier Begich-Boggs Visitor Center. There was a cafeteria and, surprise, a gift shop right next to the visitor center and we had lunch there.
The visitor center is on the shore of Portage Lake, which was formed when Portage Glacier receded and left a terminal moraine of rock that blocked the water from the melting glacier and the surrounding hills. The glacier has retreated around a point of land on the lake and is not visible unless you take a boat ride to the face of it.
At the visitor center they have several viewing points, inside and outside, for the lake and hillsides around it.


Here's Donna with another new friend.