PERITO MORENO GLACIER, PARQUE NATIONAL LOS GLACIARES, ARGENTINA. NEMY, KATE PAUL

With Chile pretty much on the left, Argentina on the right, here we've plotted our "coming from" El Chalten, "transfer to" El Calafate and the current reporting from Perito Moreno Glacier, all in Argentina.

January 16, 2017

We've made our way back from El Chalten to El Calafate, Argentina.

Now we are off to another part of Parque Nacional Los Glaciares to see the big show in out of town...

The Perito Moreno Glacier.

Perhaps the most singular awe inspiring 

"AH"

"INSPIRING"

piece and force of nature I've ever stood before. 

 In this day and time, and much in evidence during our current travels and pretty much all of our travels, Glaciers have the tendency of being described  in every form of context associated with "have" or "soon to be" disappearing.

 Here this mass of ice and snow is advancing. Evident, more incredibly right before us.

Add to the spectacle is the calving into water.

This is from the internet:

At over 3 miles (5 km) in width, the glacier boasts not only an impressive height of 240 feet (about 74 meters) above the surface of Lago Argentino (Argentino Lake), but also reaches a total depth of 170 meters (558 feet) below the water’s surface.. The glacier covers an area of 97 square miles (250 sq. km) across a 19-mile stretch (30 km) of vast expanse, with the greatest depth measured at 2,297 feet (700 meters).

Based on the stats above, this mass of ice, just from  the water up, is as high as our twenty fourth floor apartment in Toronto, Ontario, CANADA.

There are many natural sites that one can drive to. There you get out and are directed to where to stand and look, thus loosing some of the feel and freedom of what nature is all about.

This place and the presentation of access is well worth the distraction of the justifiable hordes and all that come with it.

Kate Nemy(L), los blogger (R)

The following posts will show our good fortune of seeing some massive calving.

Here with a large portion of the glacier below water we even saw massive pieces of ice being dislodged from below and then bobbing to the surface.

Coming next: The splish, splash and more!!! (also known as thank you "global warming" or "climate change" or whatever the h...........