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On The Road – way2blue – Glacier Alley, Chile 2/2

by WaterGirl|  May 18, 20235:00 am| 11 Comments

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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 already there.  So.  We flipped the day’s plans and headed first to the nearby Cóndor Glacier.  Unfortunately that meant the tide was coming in when we disembarked to visit Águila Glacier…  Making our afternoon walk back along the shore a bit wet.

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EN ROUTE TO ÁGUILA GLACIER.

A couple zodiacs headed back to the ship after dropping off passengers.

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ÁGUILA GLACIER.

We worked our way along the shore and then along a trail through the woods—me searching for the famed Calafate berries.  Legend has it that—if eaten you will return to Patagonia…  By then I had discovered Calafate Sours, a variation of Pisco Sour, so I was charmed by the thought of snagging some berries.

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ÁGUILA GLACIER.

People for scale—to give a sense of the immense size of the glacier.

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ÁGUILA GLACIER.

The trail to the base of the glacier led through a lovely forest.

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ÁGUILA GLACIER.

Looking back toward the mouth of the inlet.

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ÁGUILA GLACIER.

Rounded pebbles with lichen.

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ÁGUILA GLACIER.

Another look back toward the ship—framed in the mouth of the inlet.  And blue sky!

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ÁGUILA GLACIER.

Empty zodiacs arriving to take us back to the ship.

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11Comments

  1. 1.

    Manyakitty

    May 18, 2023 at 6:00 am

    Spectacular!

  2. 2.

    Betty

    May 18, 2023 at 7:18 am

    The forest is a nice surprise in the midst of all that ice and rock.

  3. 3.

    jonas

    May 18, 2023 at 8:20 am

    Speaking of glaciers, I read yesterday that’s it’s been estimated that Switzerland lost 6% of its total alpine glacial mass last year. Not over 20 years, or the past decade. The past *year*. Shit’s getting real.

  4. 4.

    eclare

    May 18, 2023 at 9:06 am

    Such cool photos!

  5. 5.

    SkyBluePink

    May 18, 2023 at 9:08 am

    I’ve really enjoyed your series- what a strange and wonderful place!

  6. 6.

    cope

    May 18, 2023 at 9:16 am

    Wonderful pictures of gorgeous places, thank you.  I can almost feel the wet cold of being on one of those Zodiacs.

  7. 7.

    Tenar Arha

    May 18, 2023 at 9:39 am

    Those mountains! Wow, & thanks for sharing.

  8. 8.

    pieceofpeace

    May 18, 2023 at 10:49 am

    Really enjoyed your presentations, thank you.

  9. 9.

    WaterGirl

    May 18, 2023 at 11:15 am

    Wow, so beautiful.  Stunning, spectacular and all the S words for amazing beauty.

  10. 10.

    way2blue

    May 18, 2023 at 11:57 am

    @jonas:

    My sense is that Alpine glaciers in Europe are under rapid decline.  If you visit the Dolomites—you’ll see a lot of ‘under fit’ streams full of rubble exposed by the retreating glaciers.

    In Patagonia, our guides claimed that the Chilean glaciers are holding their own.  Hope so!

  11. 11.

    agorabum

    May 18, 2023 at 6:24 pm

    @jonas: Yes, Climate Change is real, but also it was a pretty poor snow year in the Alps, which was the primary cause for the fluctuation.  Ice that melted in the summer of 2022 was not adequately replenished.

    Not a big deal if the winter of 2023-24 is big, but the lower snow years and hotter summers start adding up over time…

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