Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Global warming is bad, Mmmkay - 6 March 2009

Another easy day to recuperate. We had a private car to take us to the Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glaciares.

We spent a few hours here, taking a boat ride that got us up close to the glacier and then traveling along a walkway where we could watch the glacier. I'm sure that watching a glacier sounds about as interesting as watching paint dry, but this glacier regularly breaks up - often spectacularly.

Here's a picture of the boat and glacier together, for scale:



The video below is cobbled together from Jennifer's shots of the best break-up we saw while we were there:


Afterwards we went back to El Calafate for a nice Italian lunch and a huge steak dinner. The restaurant had calafate ice cream for dessert, but since I'm not sure what caused "the tent incident" I elected to have the normal ice cream.

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