On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.
From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.
We have just passed one OTR milestone, and we will be coming up on another one shortly. I have been shepherding On the Road for over three years now, and as of today, we are at 975 published OTR posts in that time. That’s a lot!
On the Road submissions ebb and flow. Sometimes we have so many that people have to wait 4 months to see their submissions go up; sometimes things are slow and we only have about 2 weeks of submissions in the queue. Most often, we have 5-7 weeks of submissions waiting to be published.
Even though you guys only see the OTR posts when they are published, front pagers see them on the front page as soon as they are published. Sometimes the OTR posts come in fast and furious, and Cole gets cranky because he is only half paying attention and he wonders why the hell we have 15 OTR posts in a single week. :-)
Anyway, we are in one of the “ebb” phases, with only 2 weeks of submissions in the queue, so we may take a short break soon unless submissions pick up.
way2blue
The last full day of travel we sailed up Cockburn Channel to enter Agostini Fjord intending to visit the Águila Glacier in the morning. Another cruise ship was already there. A ship which didn’t have a permit to visit this glacier. According to the guides, the penalty for ‘claim jumping’ is too small to hinder the practice. So. They flipped the day’s plans and we headed to the nearby Cóndor Glacier instead.

I thought a map might be helpful at this point… You can see our travels day-by-day. We’re now on Day 4.

Typical scenery as we approached the fjord leading to Cóndor Glacier. Day after day gliding between snow-capped mountain ranges. On the lookout for sea birds & sea mammals. A study in blues & grays..

We again approached the glacier at the head of an inlet by zodiac. This is the right side of the massive Cóndor Glacier with its chopped up bluish ice across the front.

Close-up of another waterfall for WaterGirl.

Left side of the glacier. Note the ice cave in the lower right—guess its dimensions…

How about now?
We heard ice caving while parked nearby—a unique booming sound. Note how calm the water is—we were lucky with decent weather as often it’s too rough to use the zodiacs. Just had to duck the spray as we zoomed around…
Wag
Spectacular. Reminds me of the fjords around Whittier in Alaska. Looks like a great trip. Another thing to add to my bucket list!
JPL
Wow!
Dorothy A. Winsor
How gorgeous.
brantl
Cranky Cole, but we love him.
Denali5
Thanks for the map. We flew to Punta Arenas from northern Chile, and it felt like the end of the earth there. I had no idea there are glaciers and mountains to the south! The town is interesting historically; so it was worth a stop before departing for Torres del Paine.
WaterGirl
Such amazing photos. I’m not sure I would ever want to leave.
Fake Irishman
This is a great series. My parents took a trip to this region of Chile and Argentina — their last before the Pandemic — and came away completely awed.
StringOnAStick
Patagonia rates as one of my top 3 trips in my life; the company we had on that trip wasn’t great (a couple the other couple brought along turned out to be wealthy Georgia wingnuts, so never again with either couple), but we more than made up for it by hiking faster than the others and making it into “our” trip and did tons of stuff on our own. I would love to go back to that part of the world and do some of what you’ve shown in your OTR posts
Origuy
Fantastic pictures! I need to get my act together and make some posts. I have at least four I could do from my trip to Rome and one from the year before to Bodie Ghost Town. I’ll do Vatican City next.
way2blue
Kinda late this morning. Or later than usual—no internet at home so I’ve decamped down the street…
I don’t know what I expected to see on this cruise. Friends of ours said ‘go’ and we did. We’re a bit impulsive that way. But the cruise way exceeded my expectations. Extremely well thought out ship, no TV, no internet. Cabins with a big window. Open bar with snacks… A documentary film on Ernest Shackleton (had no idea he was so driven), a lecture on the early explorers which made me realize that the Chileans & Argentinians we crossed paths with were descended from European immigrants not from the indigenous people.
way2blue
@Denali5:
We spent a couple nights in Punta Arenas as a short pause before driving to Torres del Paine. I’d wanted to visit the museum which focuses on the indigenous people, but it was closed on the Monday we were there. Did get to walk aboard replicas of the Beagle, Shackleton’s lifeboat and Magellan’s Trinidad.
rikyrah
I lived in Chile while in grad school. These pictures take me back.