El Calafate, Patagonia, Argentina. 5-9 -2010
Odometer: 3960.4 miles
El Calafate is the southern entrance to El Parque Nacional Los Glaciares. It is a huge park. The Chilean side is even bigger. I stopped here to see Glaciar Perito Moreno. Wow, was it cool! They estimate it takes only 400 some years for the ice to travel from it's beginning before it falls off into Lago Argentino. And when it falls, it really crashes. The glacier makes noises all day and all night. You can hear ice crunching inside the glacier and outside as it falls into the lake with a bang. I only managed to capture one smaller crash on film. You have to blow the pictures up, but look just above center. The wall is estimated to be 20 stories above the water and 40 stories underwater. The chunk I caught on film was all 20 stories, it just happened to be a long way away and I had a 50 mm lens.
Uncle Walter.
ps. A guy could serve a lot of brandies with all that ice, huh, Bobby?
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