that water is ice cold!
one of the streams of the Portage Glacier
the region around Girdwood
Alaska Rail also follows the Arm to Whittier
the mountains on the other side are part of the Kenai Peninsula
He sailed up
the Cook Inlet and had his men explore the two shallow waterways here. Both turned out to be the mouth of a river. Out of
frustration the arm just south of present day Anchorage was named Turnagain Arm.
Cook did not find the passage and turned
south to return to Hawaii and meet his death in 1779 at Kealakekua Bay.
The Turnagain Arm features 2 m high tidal bores and
the total tide difference can reach 12 m. At low tide large parts turn into muddy flats.
The Arm is of an exceptional beauty
with rugged mountain peaks on both sides of the waterway.
We
drove along the Turnagain Arm in June 1993 and again in June 2007.
the Turnagain Arm just south of Anchorage
the end of the Turnagain Arm near Portage
a moose shows up
