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.
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 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.
A couple zodiacs headed back to the ship after dropping off passengers.
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.
People for scale—to give a sense of the immense size of the glacier.
The trail to the base of the glacier led through a lovely forest.
Looking back toward the mouth of the inlet.
Rounded pebbles with lichen.
Another look back toward the ship—framed in the mouth of the inlet. And blue sky!
Empty zodiacs arriving to take us back to the ship.
Manyakitty
Spectacular!
Betty
The forest is a nice surprise in the midst of all that ice and rock.
jonas
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.
eclare
Such cool photos!
SkyBluePink
I’ve really enjoyed your series- what a strange and wonderful place!
cope
Wonderful pictures of gorgeous places, thank you. I can almost feel the wet cold of being on one of those Zodiacs.
Tenar Arha
Those mountains! Wow, & thanks for sharing.
pieceofpeace
Really enjoyed your presentations, thank you.
WaterGirl
Wow, so beautiful. Stunning, spectacular and all the S words for amazing beauty.
way2blue
@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!
agorabum
@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…