y is alaska considered international?

 

Because you can see Russia from your window...

 

i dont get it its technically u.s. soil...

 

Fantastic shots!

Does anyone know why the water is a milky blue in the lakes?

 

rhetorical question? My guess is calcium.... thats a total stab in the dark though...

 

Glacial silt in the water. I lived and worked in Seward for a few months back in 1998.

 

Correct.

Rock flour
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Rock flour flowing into Peyto Lake
The river Muru flowing into Gjende lake in NorwayRock flour, or glacial flour, consists of clay-sized particles of rock, generated by glacial erosion or by artificial grinding to a similar size. Because the material is very small, it is suspended in river water making the water appear cloudy. If the river flows into a glacial lake, the lake may appear turquoise in color as a result. Examples of this are Lake Louise and Peyto Lake in Canada and Gjende lake in Norway.


[edit] Formation
Natural rock flour is typically formed during glacial migration, where the glacier grinds against rock beneath it, but is also produced by freeze thaw, where the act of water freezing and expanding in cracks helps break up rock formations.

Although clay-sized, its particles are not clay minerals but typically ground up quartz and feldspar. Rock flour is carried out from the system via meltwater streams, where the particles travel in suspension. Rock flour particles can travel great distances either suspended in water or by the wind, in the latter case forming deposits called loess.

 

Because I washed my socks in there after a looooong hike. Don't believe what Geologists tell you about glacial silt....it was me.

 

Your best shots to date fly or die. Fantastic