Artist: Karen Colligan-Taylor

(McBride Glacier, July 1976) Each morning in the summer of 1976 the Thunder Bay, a tour boat carrying about 80 passengers, departed Glacier Bay Lodge in Bartlett Cove for a trip up the east arm of Glacier Bay. The first tidewater glacier it would reach was McBride Glacier. In those days, many kayakers were dropped off by the tour boat at McBride or Riggs, camping in this vicinity and then paddling back down bay to Bartlett Cove. Note the glacial scouring on the rock face above McBride. This photo was taken from White Thunder Ridge. In this 1976 photo the Inlet that was to become McBride Inlet is completely full of ice.