now ptagonia is starting to feel and look like what i had imagined...
key thing i've wanted to do since getting to South America is see a glacier....moreover see one break into the ocean like ive seen on tv/ discovery channel etc.
rode up perito moreno glacier, one of the bigger 46 ones around from calafate known to break off chunks of ice quite regularily, to try my luck.... great ride next to glacier filled lakes with that unique glacier color water
they had the lookout area closed to cars so you had to walk up a ways....or take a hearded like cattle tour boat....boat/walk? boat. got on and instantly amazed at the mass of the glacier which is approx 3.5 miles long and 200ft high.
size scale picture below the boat is approx 30ft high and 80ft long
boat ride up and down for about 30 min....starts raining and most of the heard moves insideonly couple of us stay out....
keep looking for chunks to break off but nothing happenen....can hear cracks though....they sound like shotgun blast s few feet away...nothing. just as boats starts to turn back toward the dock i have my camera pointed at the glacier and i hear a huge roar like thunder sound..look and its a chunk crashing to the water...snap snap snap.....then a few seconds later another one
....snap snap snap...got a few pics but mostly only crashing into water and nothing falling in air but the experience was right up there in the top of this trip....wicked nature
boat ride up and down for about 30 min....starts raining and most of the heard moves insideonly couple of us stay out....keep looking for chunks to break off but nothing happenen....can hear cracks though....they sound like shotgun blast s few feet away...nothing. just as boats starts to turn back toward the dock i have my camera pointed at the glacier and i hear a huge roar like thunder sound..look and its a chunk crashing to the water...snap snap snap.....then a few seconds later another one....snap snap snap...got a few pics but mostly only crashing into water and nothing falling in air but the experience was right up there in the top of this trip....wicked natureafterward got on bike and as leaving noticed the road to the lookout area was open...should we go up? ya we're here why not......turned out to be a wise decision.... 20 minutes later the glacier started breaking like crazy...huge chunks dropping, giant ripple waves with massive blocks of ice floating areound and piercing loud blasts and cracks like thunder every minute or two....
again late on the 'in mid air' falling pics but did get a video......post it when i get home.....earth moving day!
rings of ice and waves from breaking chunks
rings of ice and waves from breaking chunks
cool daddio cool
