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This Blog will follow my adventures - well holidays really. Hopefully you will want to tell me what you enjoyed in the countries I have visited and maybe recommend places to go.

Monday, February 06, 2012

Glaciers Part 2


This was a 6 hour excursion by boat to look at some of the other glacierss in this ice field.  In my eyes it was a large Cataraman, seating 4-5-4 across the main cabin.  Fortunately it was only about 10% full so it was easy to move around and get to the rails to take photos.
The weather was gloomy and as dreary as yesterday was beautiful.  Lake Argentino, even with the mountains around it, looked boring! After about an hour we began to see evidence in terms of ice flows and icebergs - yes, icebergs. If a lump of ice is twice the size of the boat, then I think it is an iceberg.  All the Japanese girls doing Titanic impressions at the bow were trying our luck!  The sun ws now breaking through and blue sky appearing.  Snow capped mountains were now the backdrop.  We could clearly distinguish the smooth snow fields and the jagged glaciers.  All of the glaciers except Perito Mereno are receeding.
We saw small glaciers looking lost on the side of a mountain as they had receeded from the sea.  We sailed close to the face of another and willed a big chunk to fall off, but it did not happen!
The journey back with sun on those mountains made Lake Argentino look very special.

My two excursions to see glaciers have been totally satisfying, only sifting through the photos and panoramic sweeps of the face by the camcorder, are going to present problems.

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