Patagonia Glacier Moreno

I decided to check out Patagonia, which is the southern most part of the continent. It's suppose to be a desolute land, characterised by beautiful glaciers (its near antartica), awesome wild life and some big ass mountains.

So, I caught a flight down to El Calefatte, a small town that swells during holiday season. The airport is situation right next to a beautiful lake, and when you hope off on the tarmac and look around, all you see are mountains, blue water and clear skys.

There are a bunch of glaciers in the area, the most famous being Moreno. To get there, we hired a little taxi driver, whom we paid to drive us, and wait for three hours. Nice guy.

Anyway, Moreno is famous for quite a few reasons, not least being that its 60 metres high, and that every few minutes, a MASSIVE CHUNK WILL BREAK OFF AND CRASH INTO THE WATER BELOW, PROBABLY KILLING SOMETHING.

The view on the way there.

Its seriously massive. The photos don't really do it justice. You can see people in this photo, and they are still about two to three hundred metres away from the glacier.

They also call these guys Rivers of Ice, because the glacier's path is dictated by the mountains around it, like a river to the banks.

I tried to get an action shot.

Being there was awesome. The whole glacier creaks and groans as the ice continually shifts. And when the ice breaks, the noise is tremendous, like a massive cracking sound then a roar as it hits the water.