Turnagain Arm, Cook Inlet

The Turnagain Arm of the Cook Inlet is just south of Anchorage.

It is low tide. Those big blocky things in the foreground are tiny iceburgs, i.e. burgettes that get stuck at the shoreline during high tide. (Correction: The best term for these is sea ice. More here.) The rest of the brown stuff is frozen mud. There is some open water at the foot of the Kenai Mountains on the horizon.

The Turnagain Arm gets its name from the time of Capt. Cook's exploration. The story is that Capt. Cook sailed up the inlet (Cook Inlet) and turned south. When he encountered shallow water he had to turn around again, therefore, Turnagain Arm of the Cook Inlet. The other arm of the Cook Inlet is north, the Knik Arm.

What happened to Boden? He'll be back.

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Turnagain Arm, Cook Inlet, Alaska