Our first full day back in El Calafate, Argentina, we took a boat tour of the massive glaciers – Upsala & Spegazzini – and the icebergs that broke away during the calving of the glaciers.
I loved seeing the icebergs – shining blue and white in the sun’s rays, uniquely formed by wind and water.
Layers of swirls, peek-holes of ice, blues and whites melting and crystalizing, shaped by the winds, hit by our wake, and formed by the calving of the glaciers up the lake!
Some pieces looked tiny enough to fit in a cup. Others were bigger than our 3 level ship!
Each one unique to that time . . . to that place . . . to that moment!
The crew of the ship managed to wrangle an iceberg onto the ships deck so that we could feel what it was like. (Mainly, they picked it up out of Argentina Lake so that they could take pictures with it as well as break it up for selling as a drink with whiskey.) We took our own pictures with it.
It was truly breathtaking: the site, sound and sensation of the ice wall splitting off, roaring with its collapse, crumbling down into a powdery puff of snowy ice pushing forward toward our ship.
The glacier was so enormous that it made a passing ship look tiny:
After battling the winds, the glacial lake spray, the cold airy and the pushy tourists, Ben was lulled into a restful nap by the warmth of the cabin seats and the rock of the waves.
