Awesome Alaska's Perfect Portage is a Gorgeous Glacier

Due to popular demand, here's another angle on Alaska's Portage Glacier. It's not that far from Anchorage for a day trip.

Once you reach the lake, which is surrounded by mountains draped with patches of snow, the Ptarmigan takes you right up to the glacier.

As you can see from the photo, the vessel is small but sturdy and as it approaches the glacier more and more people head for the top deck (even though it's quite breezy).

When the glacier calves, massive chunks of ice crash into the lake and become mini icebergs.

This fish tank on board, filled with glacier ice (and a rubber duckie), clearly illustrates the point that most of an iceberg is hidden below the surface of the water. So even in a lake, the vessel has to steer clear of these beautiful bits of glacier just in case.


By the way, the water in the tank was freezing too!

All in all, a good adventure to go on while in Alaska.