Paradise Bay, 2018

I mentioned that I saw glaciers calving in Paradise Bay in 2018.

I remembered the glaciers as being huge, really awe-inspiring. What I saw last month was beautiful, but not on the scale I had remembered, so I went back to look at my pictures from 2018. Even assuming that we might have been in a different part of the bay when I took these pictures—we did go ashore by Brown Station, though we couldn't go inside—I didn't see anything like these glaciers last month.

I found some articles online confirming that there has indeed been significant melting/retreating of the glaciers in Paradise Bay. I shouldn't be surprised; I know Antarctica isn't immune to climate change. But it breaks my heart all the same.