The same small catamaran that took us close to the Dawes Glacier, took us down the 8-mile long Fords Terror Fjord to the half mile wide tidewater South Sawyer Glacier, on Wednesday, September 14, 2022.
This Fjord is also known as the Tracy Arm-Fords Terror. This Fjord got its name because of the dangerous riptide currents that enters this Fjord at hide tide.The Fjord has become navigable in recent yearssince it is no longer jammed with floating icebergs. The glacier has retreated 3.4 miles since 1899. All of this has allowed viewing of the glacier.
After leaving the Fjord, the small catamaran had to catch up to our cruise Ship which was already heading to Skagway, AK.
This outdoor garden model railway is based on the 261 mile “Romantic Road” from the central German city of Würzburg to the town of Füssen in southern Germany at the Austrian Alps through the states of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.
Romantic Road(Deutschland’s Romantische Straße) can be defined as: charming, attractive, nice, eye-catching.
A panoramic view of model railway at the EPCOT German Pavilion in Walt Disney World, Florida.
The layout was created in 1995 for the Epcot Flower and Garden Festival to represent the culture of Germany’s oldest holiday route. This route includes nature, art, culture, culinary traditions and the hospitality of the “Romantic Road.”
This 1:22.5 scale garden model railway has detailed Bavarian Villages with European Piko buildings. Scale figures and animals, “real live” miniature trees, well maintained by the Disney Horticulturists, the Main River and rock work representing Austrian mountains. The layout has been built with standard section track. The layout is located at the German Pavilion in the EPCOT Theme Park World Showcase in Walt Disney World, Florida. I took these pictures in January, 2021, to created the following rough schematic drawing by looking at the pictures. The drawing is shown from the side seen by visitors. I stayed double masked during my visit to EPCOTduring the Covid epidemic.
I created the below video of this layout on my Android phone. https://youtu.be/2MTESCD2c1k Filming was done on two different days, the reason for the different consists and engines. Look closely and you’ll see a couple small Brown Anole lizards scampering over buildings. No lizard was hurt during my filming!
In 2014 Jack drove the actual length of the Romatic Road. Click the below link to view actual photos of these towns.
Click the above to view buildings offered by Jack to build a model Railway.
This is my last blog from traveling along the Oregon Pacific Ocean Coast — U.S. 101, for a week since leaving Vancouver. Those previous photos are typical. I have no regrets from those adventure visits, except, to spend more time hiking and viewing several of them.
Weather and available time resulted in better photographs from this Scenic Corridor road trip of Gold Beach to Brookings. If you only have a limited time to explore Oregon’s coast, I’d recommend just exploring along U.S. 101 between Gold Coast and Brookings!
Click the below photo to view Uncle Jack’s California’s Redwood Coast Road Trip, which was hisnext September, 2022 adventure.
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