Today the plan was to visit the famous Perito Moreno Glacier - first by boat and then afterwards viewing if from above from catwalks in the Los Glaciares National Park.
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| Before catching the boat to view the glacier, we stopped off at this viewpoint to catch a glimpse of the glacier in the distance |
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| You can see where the glacier meets the lake but the size is deceptive |
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| A man spoiling a perfectly good view of a glacier (just visible top right hand corner) |
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| Boarding the boat to take us to the foot of the glacier |
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| Approaching the glacier from the boat. We were standing at the very front of the boat and got sprayed with ice-cold water! |
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| As we approached the wall of ice just got bigger .... |
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| ... and bigger! |
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| Here we are moving away from the glacier but what is really unexpected is how blue the colour of the ice is. If you can blow these pictures up bigger, you will see all the deep blue cracks and fissures in the ice. |
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| Cold and wet again but thrilled to bits. |
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| These rocks have grooves and scars on their surface where the glacier has scrapped the surface when it flowed over them in the past. |
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| If you look carefully you will see a tiny ship in the bottom right of this picture in front of the glacier - just to give some idea of scale |
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| After our boat trip we went to the Glacier National Park where we were able to view the glacier from different heights and viewpoints along a stretch of catwalks |
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| Looking along the top of the glacier |
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| We were able to see three sides to the front of the glacier (2 sides shown here). This occurs because the middle of the glacier travels faster than the two outer sides |
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| The front of the glacier showing where large chucks of ice have broken off (calved) and fallen into the lake in front |
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| Just to prove we were really here |
1 comment:
This is like something from Game of Thrones!
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