Los Glaciares - Perito Merino Glacier |
Getting there |
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Hawk watching from a calafate bush |
Harrier sweeping low over the reeds |
Bandurria in flight |
An assortment of local waterbirds | ||
Perito Moreno Glacier |
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View from the jetty to the west face of the glacier |
As was becoming common in Patagonia, our arrival was greeted by a condor soaring elegantly overhead |
Iceberg on Lago Argentino |
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Mists roll in intensifying the blueness of the ice face |
The sun breaks out on the 60m high western ramparts of Perito Moreno |
Rhapsody in blue - a few images of the tortured face of Perito Moreno taken from the boat |
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View of the western face of Perito Moreno from the peninsula
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A cruise boat is dwarfed by the eastern face of the glacier |
Looking over the western section of Perito Moreno Glacier |
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The play of light and shade on Perito Moreno |
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View over Lago Argentino from the peninsula |
Looking through the beech trees to the sea of ice beyond |
This tower of twisted ice shows the enormous pressures at the face of the glacier |
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Ice and mountain framed by the red clusters of notro flowers |
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The third leg of our visit was a walk down from the main viewing area, along a dirt path through the magellanic forest, with deciduous lenga, ñire and evergreen guindo beech, open areas with red flowering notro and - very few people!! All the time, we could look out across the turquoise waters of Lago Argentino at the glistening face of Perito Moreno.
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It was an impressive end to an impressive day. |
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