Perito Moreno Glacier is unreal!!

You know when you see something so beautiful you can´t stop staring? You stare and stare, look away, and then look back and its like the first time you´re seeing it? That is what its like checking it out the Perito Moreno Glacier.

First we were bused to the ¨balconies¨ right across from the Glacier, where you can see the entire face of the glacier from land. Its unreal - basically a 600 year old froven river, but instead of settling at water level there is 200 vertical feet of ice above water level, and 3 miles across the river bed - not sure how long. But the total size of the glacier is actually bigger than BA city. One of the biggest glaciers in South America! Anyway, so you´re checking out this massive freak of nature and you wait, listen to it crack and hiss, and then all of a sudden you hear a huge crack as a massive piece of ice slides off the wall, crashes into the water and creates a huge wave. No better word for it than awesome. McLure got addicted to it, waiting for the next thing to crash. He actually didn´t want to leave, it was like pulling a kid out off the swing at the park. :)

Next we took a boat that crossed right in front of the glacier and then got dropped us off on the land right next to one of its ¨banks¨, where we got to hike ON the glacier. We strapped on crampons, which felt like moon boots, and then in single file hiked on the ice. Really cool!! There were little blue streams and holes in the ice - I liked these, took lots of photos. We got to go pretty far in and got some great views and pics and then turned back. Last stop - they surprised us with whiskey on the rocks at a little ¨bar¨aka table with glasses on it, and used the ice to serve up the drinks. McLure, again, was in Heaven.

As I said, it never gets old looking at this glacier- its unreal. We continued our gringo photo session on the boat back to the bus. A day to remember...