【改訂＆英文添付、which is a revised edition 】
☆彡 2016年と2018年8月、アラスカの氷河観光の物語り続編です ☆彡
【氷河がプリンス・ウィリアム・サウゥンド湾に崩落す】
【Glaciers Falling down into the Water of Prince William Sound】
自然が創造する造形は、時々偉大な芸術家の作品です。
テレビとか本の中で見る氷河は、断崖から海にドーンと落ち込むシーンがほとんどでしょう。でも、小型水上飛行機からは、海上の船からでは決して眺められない、さまざまな氷河の姿を観察することが出来ます。
2016年と2018年、いずれも8月に同じ飛行機で、ほぼ同じ場所を飛び回りましたが、太陽光線と雲が作用して、それぞれの瞬間、氷河は違う表情を見せてくれました。氷河の百変化、と言えそうです。
I feel that Nature often creates amazing objects far beyond our understanding.
I had learned, from books and TV programms before leaving Tokyo, that the colossal glaciers would fall off the mountains into the sea water.
However in August 2016 and 2018, incredible glaciers, which were absolutely different from those to be seen from sightseeing boats, as I knew, could be observed from the sky, when I flew around in a seaplane.
2018年8月には、飛行場の湖（！）からTurn Again河まで快晴でしたが、上空の雲が次第に山々の氷河を覆って、恐怖の氷河に変身させていました。
自然の、深層のいたずら心を見たように思えます。
In 2018, the weather around Anchorage was changeable, as usual.
It was perfectly sunny from the plane departed from the lake until the time when the glaciers could be seen.
Over the glaciers, were cloud masses drifting in the sky, some were whity like ordinal ones, another gray, quite dark. Some of the clouds were wrapping mountains and glaciers. Therefore many of the glaciers were decorated curiously, rather furiously by the clouds and the sunlight.
It could be an art, an expression of NATURE itself.
これらの写真に見られる氷河は動的に見えてもそれは幻覚で、実際にはほとんど静止・・・です。
The glaciers to be seen in these photos are ice masses which cling firmly onto the mountains. Although they seem to be running or falling at that second, but an illusion, and they are absolutely still, almost.
（崩れ落ちた氷河は湾内を浮氷として漂っていました。）
(The ice pieces, which fell off the huge glacier, were floating around in the sea.)
