Speechless in Toba Inlet

 



Toba Inlet, turquoise water and never ending peaks

We decided to spend the day touring Toba Inlet and return to Wildernest Resort Marina in the late afternoon to spend another night.  We told Kyle, the resort manager, our plans to spend the day touring the sights.  He assured us that the scenery in Toba Inlet is well worth the trip. 

Faded Pictograph, Toba Inlet

Pictograph, Toba Inlet

He also told us about a couple of pictographs in Toba Inlet that we hadn’t known about and gave us the approximate locations.  We headed up the Inlet around 11am, anticipating good lighting for picture taking.  We soon were enveloped by towering vertical peaks of granite which seemed to support yet more mountains with cirques and cones capped with snow.  The clear turquoise water, created from snow melt off the glaciers, contrasted with the blue sky and puffy white clouds.   Huge valleys spilling water from the mountains also funneled winds through the Inlet.  We experienced everything from flat calm seas to 30 knot winds, but who cares with such awe inspiring beauty. 

It was hard to imagine the tremendous forces that carved out the mountains above us and the 1,500 feet below us now filled by the sea. 

 Even Leonard was speechless, there were no words to adequately describe the magnitude of what we were seeing.  That being said, I will stop here and let the photos speak for themselves.