Beautiful yard in Calafate, Argentina, southern patagonia
How is that for rose bushes?
More flowers
Moreno Glacier: This glacier and many others feeds off of a huge icefield west of the cont. divide, southern patagonia, the largest icefield outside of the poles in the world we were told.
Side view Moreno glacier
This glacier is up to 200 feet deep: It takes about 100 feet of snow to make one foot of glacial ice.
That is a lot of ice down there
This is one of the few advancing glaciers in the world
Nice safe bridge.: They let buses cross this thing so we felt fairly safe
On the way
Beautiful flowers along the way
Intersting wildflowers
Purple flowers
Watching the clouds lift.
Fitz Roy from terminal glacial morraine
Lake still hasn't thawed out
Leaving Fitz Roy
Climbing the steps to bus terminal in Calafate, Argentina.
Waiting to load the bus.: The bus service we experienced in Chile and Argentina was excellent.
Puerto Natales: Am view outside our bed and breakfast, the wind had not started blowing yet.
Puerto Natales, Chile, southern patagonia
Nice boat
Farmer with oxen heading for his field: We did not see many tractors as we traveled through this ranch country, many more horses, some beef, a lot of sheep.
Emu
Visiting a penguin colony
Standing guard outside the burrow: The burrows and penguins were scattered in a colony just like the prarie dogs back home
Heading to the beach for dinner.
Whats up?
Kjirsten leaves us in Santiago.
Salt Lake City welcomes us back to reality.
