It did look beautiful from afar. Sometimes, it pays to step back and look at the big picture. I'm a traveler. People everywhere tend to be friendly, and that includes Alaska where they also have a sense of humor. I think that comes from the extremes they face all time.
Tourists tend to rankle the locals everywhere.
It's because they don't do their homework. People who don't read up on the area they are going to visit won't know what they're looking at. Like dirty glaciers. The soil and rock is as much a part of the glacier as the ice. I knew that.