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early morning, ate the heaviest breakfast ive had in country, (continental buffet) scrambled eggs, toast, a very thin watery drinkable yogurt and various pastries. we hopped a bus to the glacial lake Lago Argentino. the catamaran we were on was big and heated, and took us to the three major glaciers down here, the Perito Moreno ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perito_Moreno_Glacier ), Upsala ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upsala_Glacier ) and the Spegazzini.
here is a pic dump of that 8 hour boat ride
the glaciers down here arent all that old on the geologic timescale, but they are pretty big, all of them are fingers of the Patagonian icefields, creeping through the mountains wearing them down, so in a few dozen millenia there area will look alot like the Great Lakes Region in the States. The biggest one, the Perito Moreno glacier is like 250 sq km, which is pretty damn big, making it alone one of the largest reserves of freshwater on earth.
this took pretty much all day, we got back exhausted, napped, ate a fantastic dinner at the hotel, and then partied in my room again, plenty catz, cards, laughing yelling, handstands good times overall.
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