Pro-earth

Dixon Glacier
Looking across at Bear Cove

June 26, 2006

In Homer with the Sunshines at a B&B about fourteen miles out East End Road. Steve’s GPS says we are about 1400 feet above the surface of Kachemek Bay. I wonder if that is at high tide or low tide. Today the difference between high and low tides in this bay is over twenty-two feet. Steve’s book says that Kachemek Bay has the second highest tidal change in North America.

It rained on us on the drive to Homer, but Steve and Martha Sunshine came through. We are sitting on the deck looking across the bay in the direction of Bear Cove. The glacier behind Bear Cove is Dixon and the glacier to the right of Dixon is Portlock. The tops of both glaciers above the cloud whisps just blazed white, reflecting the sunshine.

Don, the B&B owner who is from Syracuse, N.Y., stopped by to bad mouth “wacky environmentalists” that believe global warming might be melting some glaciers. He probably didn’t know what my kids do. Also I didn’t like the name he chose. I prefer to think that there are only three kinds of people; those who are pro-earth, those who are anti-earth, and who don’t care. We need more pro-earth people.