Whist in Newfoundland we had the privilege of seeing the massive chunks of 13,000 year old glacial fresh water otherwise known as icebergs. It was rare to see so many this late in the year but the increase was due to the breaking apart of an enormous ice island off the coast of Greenland. To see an armada of ice-cubes the size of a battleships sitting in the bay was a sight to behold! A boat tour from St. Anthony also revealed more giants: whales! We saw a pod of whales blowing plumes of breath as they travelled and a humpback whale flippering (I think that's the term) which is basically a maneuver in which the whale rolls around on it's back, flapping it's flippers in the air. The boat took us back to the icebergs where we saw some with vivid blue lines of super compressed ice glowing under overcast skies. Bergy bits crackled in the seawater as the millions of trapped air bubbles in the ice were released. The trip was well worth it.
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