MORE Ice Ice Baby!

Visited ‘the Rivers of Ice Circuit’ off Punta Bandera, including the thousand year old Upsala and Spegazzini glaciers. 

Beautiful start to the day travelling out of El Calafate and saw an amazing cloud formation, of which Joan de Miro would be proud!

 A rainbow greeted us as the catamaran pulled out of the harbour.  

And then the weather declined ..drizzle, fog, generally overcast. What a shame, but never mind.  Saw some fab blue blue ice floes drifting away on the cold waters..and lying close to:

• the main wall of the Upsala Glacier. It feeds the Perito Moreno glacier and is well known for its rapid retreat, which many see as evidence for global warming. It is 60 kms long and has 2 fronts in width. 70 metres high.  It’s surface is so flat that armed forces based in Antartica train there and planes can land
• the immensity of the Spegazzini Glacial wall of 135 metres.  
• Back in El Calafate…a lovely view over blue Lago Argentino, horsies pastured in the foreground….