B&W gallery: calm day

A beautiful day in Glacier Bay. I don't think any of the eight-man team on the University of

London's Hydrobiological Expedition to Alaska in the summer/autumn of 1977 expected to

come home with a suntan; indeed much of the first six weeks, at the southern end of the

Bay, were spent sheltering from continual rain. This was the area that was most recently

de-glaciated and therefore had the most mature melt-water streams - the focus of the team's

research. But the two of us on the film crew were increasingly frustrated by the weather until

we all moved further up-Bay and the sun came out for much of the rest of our three month

trip. Despite being frustrated by the difficulty of getting to the head of the glaciers with a failing

outboard and of having a bear mess with our film gear, our wildlife film was eventually in the

can and was shown on television the following year.

A beautiful day in Glacier Bay. I don't think any of the eight-man team on the University of

London's Hydrobiological Expedition to Alaska in the summer/autumn of 1977 expected to come

home with a suntan; indeed much of the first six weeks, at the southern end of the Bay, were

spent sheltering from continual rain. This was the area that was most recently de-glaciated and

therefore had the most mature melt-water streams - the focus of the team's research. But the

two of us on the film crew were increasingly frustrated by the weather until we all moved further

up-Bay and the sun came out for much of the rest of our three month trip. Despite being

frustrated by the difficulty of getting to the head of the glaciers with a failing outboard and of

having a bear mess with our film gear, our wildlife film was eventually in the can and was shown

on television the following year.

Calm day, Glacier Bay