The Glacier Moreno

It was someone's bright idea to get up a 5 this morning in order to beat the crowds to the glacier. I thought Trip Advisor said you can go up early without having to wait for the park to open. Not the case! We packed up our ski gear and the gal at the hotel made us a sandwhich last night. Just waiting to see her today so she can say, "I told you so!"

Guess who was first to the Park? We arrived at 6:15 after travelling in the dark dodging jack rabbits. We dodged 20 of them, but about number 13 was a hare too slow! There was a 'guard' there who came out to ask us to park until 7. Finally at about 6:55 another car arrived, but it was the crew for the gate. At 7 they let us in.

Happy campers . . . at least one was. A timed photo.

First car in the parking lot and first ones down the walkways. We were the only ones to see the biggest calving of the day!! You can hear the glacier groan and pop. About once an hour some ice slips off, but this was huge! Cracking thunder echoing around as a 20 story chunk drops into the lake. It took a while for the chunk to settle, but when it did we could see a huge boulder caught in its grip.





Massive and very impressive!



Another piece hits the lake.



There were 30 tour busses scattered about on our way back to el Calafate. We left about 11:00 and didn't have much traffic. It takes forever to load these pictures on Blogger, so maybe I'll try Picaso.



El Chalten tomorrow then the Upsala Glacier boat ride all day Thursday. The patient is doing well and the legs are more of a flesh tone!