Following up on my ice blue message, the best of the blue ice for me was the icebergs. We were told that when the ice is very blue, the ice is probably at least 10,000 years old. I don’t know how true that is, but if so, we saw lots of very old ice.

I just thought that the icebergs floating by with so much blue ice to them were spectacular to see and to enjoy.

Icebergs, we were told, generally have 10% to 30% of their mass above the water, and conversely, 70% to 90% of their mass below the water (i.e. the tip of the iceberg). The icebergs that were so impressive to see were the ones with so much blue ice below the water. The icebergs in these pictures are all regular icebergs from glaciers that have “calved” into the ocean. “Calving” is the term that is used when a glacier drops part of it’s ice off the land shelf and into the water – becoming an iceberg.

In the first photo, it’s a small size glacial iceberg (but bigger than our house) with a large amount of old ice down below the water line.

The iceberg in the second photo is a glacial iceberg that got top heavy and flipped over in the water. I zoomed in to capture the blue color, but if you look at the top of the photo in the background, you can see the white snow and dark hillside for contrast.

The third photo is a very small iceberg, maybe the size of my living room but again, the color of the ice in the water is fantastic.