Visiting this glacier was the main reason we included El Calafate and Los Glaciers National Park in our itinerary. So, my anticipation was high. This was the place I hoped to see glacial calving and potentially capture it for posterity. I will admit that though the glacier is impressive, by now, we have seen many. We have also seen some partial calvings in Antarctica and the one on our way to Los Tres. But for none of them I had any photographic capture.
It is a long drive to Perito Moreno, but quite scenic. We also saw ostriches on the way, but they were very far away, even for my telephoto lens.
At Perito Merino glacier, there are many walkways that they call balconies to view the glacier. We explored a few of them for different views. We again saw some partial calvings but unfortunately couldn’t capture anything in photo or video.
After walking the balconies, we took a boat ride that took us close to the east face of the glacier.
The boat ride started with a bang with multiple calvings. mission accomplished and I was thrilled.
There were also some pretty icebergs here and beautiful scenery. After the calvings, we just relaxed and soaked in the beauty.
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