A dusting of desert snow covers the cold desolate top of Mt Sinai as one looks across the red-granite mountain peaks on the Sinai Peninsula. Also known by the names Mount Horeb and Gabal Musa (the 'Mountain of Moses'), the mountain is considered to be a the likely location of the biblical Mount Sinai. Mount Sinai is mentioned many times both the Bible, and the Quran, particularly in the book of Exodus. According to Jewish, Christian, and Islamic tradition, the biblical Mount Sinai was the place where Moses received the Ten Commandments. Mt Sinai sits at 2,285 m (7,497 ft) in the St Katherine region of the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. Shot taken on film.
Sailing around the southern tip of Admiralty Island we stopped to explore some outcropping limestone islands for caves in a small skiff. This shot is looking back across the limestone towards the dramatic East coast of Baranof Island. It is hard to convey the ruggedness of this part of South East Alaska in an image. Let me know what you think? Alaska, USA
An iceberg stranded at the end of LeConte Bay where it meets Frederick Sound. While the bay itself is 247m (810 ft) deep, an underwater terminal moraine stretches across the mouth of the bay. This shallow ridge marks the LeConte glacier’s greatest geologically recent advance and traps the largest icebergs as they float out into Frederick Sound. As seen here the tidal zone of the icebergs themselves are repeatedly exposed to the rise and fall of the water line as they rest on the bottom. This floods any trapped air in the ice exposing a deep blue hue which provides a stark contrast to the white tip of the berg which floats above the water line at high tide. The bay is a 12 mile-long fjord which feeds into Frederick Sound. Le Conte glacier has retreated 4km (or 2.5 miles) since 1879 and being south of the 57th parallel north, remains the southernmost tidewater glacier of the Northern Hemisphere. South East Alaska. USA
