Perito Moreno Glacier

This one is truly massive! (~100 square miles)

It is 19 miles long and 3 miles wide (at its terminus) -

The boardwalks at the bottom of the picture can give you a slight bit of scale. This is the other side -

The surrounding mountains were beautiful -

The sun broke through the clouds only rarely, but I tried to capture it occasionally -

This was my favorite location, at the “corner” -

See the dark pieces of ice in the water? Do you remember what we learned in Antarctica?

They are super old, from the bottom of the glacier, and have had all the air compressed from them -

I kept searching for the reflections…

… but it was difficult on a dreary day.

The streaks of blue definitely kept drawing my eye (and camera) -

As we left the park, we had a lucky encounter with one of the residents…

… that decided to stop and pose -

Since I’m sure you expect at least one bird per post (?!), this is an Austral Parakeet, the southernmost parrot in the world -

… as well as our favorite Andean bird -

yep, a Condor

This view from El Calafate, over Lago Argentino (the largest lake in Argentina), looks almost like an Impressionist painting -

Next up… more hiking!