Andrea and Phil - Moreno Glacier

Okay, after Buenos Aires, we took a flight over to Rio Gallegos, then a quick bus over to El Calafate. From there you can take an amazing day trip to see Moreno Glacier. It´s reputed to be one of the most active glaciers on earth, it´s still growing!

The ice stands 60 m tall and I forget how far back it goes (kilometers and kilometers!), but it´s truly spectacular. You can hear it binding and compressing from the walkways, just across a bit of the lake - it sounds like a shot gun going off. After the sun heats it up a bit, you can see pieces of the ice fall off and crash into the lake - it always sounds so much more impressive than it looks. Unlike the glaciers I have seen in Canada, the top of this one is really jagged with big icy peaks all over the place - really cool. The lake is filled with icebergs, big and small, from chunks of the glacier that have fallen off. We took a boat trip around the lake from 11:30 - 12:30 , getting about 150 m from the glacier. The sun hadn´t heated it up enough, so we didn´t get to see any pieces falling but it still looked great and was a wicked way to see our first major views of the glacier.