Parque de Los Glaciares – The Unforgettable Moreno

 

 

Rising 75m above water level and 5km wide at this terminus, the Moreno Glacier presents itself with grandeur and splendour as the crown jewel  of Parque Nacional de Los Glaciares.  The world’s third largest reserve of (frozen) water, sports the most beautiful shade of blue (apparently as a result of lower levels of oxygen in the ice) which wraps itself firmly around all of your senses.  By far the most dramatic moment of any time spent here is during an ice-calving, where huge edifices of ice fall and smash violently into the water – the last photo was ‘the big one of the day’ where this titanic portion of the right flank creaked and swayed and, with a tremendous cacophony, blitzed the waters of the right hand flank.  Truly epic.