Perito Moreno

So many adventures and so little time to write it all down and share it with you all. I am actually typing this on the bus to try and stay caught up with all the amazing, wonderful experiences I am having down here in Patagonia. There is just so much to hike and see here. Increible!!!!
We arrived in El Calafate 3 ½ hours later, got a hostel and immediately scheduled a trip to the Perito Merino glaciar in Parque Nacional Los Glaciars (South) for the next morning leaving at 7:30 am. Perito Merino is one of the only glaciars in the world that is still advancing (or getting bigger). It is an incredibly large glaciar filled with jagged peaks and blue colored ice. The snow and ice turn into a light blue and deeper blue when it is compressed with more and more weight. Gosh the edge of the field ended in the water with walls that were 60 meters high - which is about 180 feet high. WOW. Another day filled with this 3 letter word - WOW. A 60 meter high wall of ice, some parts icy blue, other parts silt covered, cracks and lines displaying the layers. WOW! I am sorry once again for not having a better camera to depict it more clearly. But it gets even better because while we stood watching this field, we saw and heard chunks of ice fall and thunder into the water. WOW!! What an incredible thing - it mesmerized us for about an hour and a half because we just wanted to see more, despite being rather chilly. First you could hear the cracks, it almost sounded like gun shots, and then we would see little chunks fall off and then when the bug chunks dropped - WHOA Nelly. They dropped into the water, and then a huge explosion of water would erupt, with the ice surfacing a a minute or two later. WOW!! WOW!!!! WOW!!!! Then we would see the wakes in the water, rising like a tide and pushing against any land mass. WOW, amazing, thunderous, changing, altering, WOW!!!! Then after about 10 minutes or so, you could see the change in the water, the effects of this glacial ice falling into the water and creating this ring. Life is sooooo incredible. These changes that we see within a matter of minutes are so powerful and yet there is still this great landmass of glacial ice. Long live nature and life!!!