18 Perito Moreno Glacier !

The hostel is great abd a great sleep in to - up at 8 for bus trip to Perito Moreno Glacier with Boat trip . Sun shining ! Blue sky ! Fantastic day ahead !

We make a few stops on the hour trip to glacier to view from afar. The landscape is very arid here on the steppe . Calafate bushes carry blue berries that are used as local liquor.The Yellow flower bush is used as medicine for a bad chest

Adiabatic and katabatic wind processes operate over the Andes . So obviously wet and cold on mountains but moisture disappears on this side and at the glacier we are
closer to the Pacific Ocean - here the dry winds leave an arid steppe desert type landscape all the way to east coast
Nortris or coccineum or fire bush with red flowers
provide some colour and are everywhere

We arrive ! Amazing !
The multi walkways allow us to view the left side of glacier , Brazo Rico , where the lake is milky flour grey rock coloured and the glacier is 60 to 120m to uneven bottom. The face is about 70 m high .
There is the point where the ice bridge and tunnel would be but it hasn’t been formed and fallen since 2018 so it’s just a snout !
From time to time huge
chunks of ice fall from the top with a loud crack and accompanying huge splash .
On the right side is the canal de tempanos where the glacier is 160 m and grounded and the lake is a light azure blue !

The boat cruise takes us even closer to the glacier and the blue crevasses and seracs ! It’s like a cathedral with sunlit blue windows !
In the distance we can see the lucky hundred or so who have bought a ticket to climb on the moraine and hike up part of the glacier !
A fantastic day of awesome glacier and beautiful blue sky weather !
And another restful night in the hostel !
Photo choice today is a little difficult !Leggi altro