Very Happy New Year from PatagoniaTook a 200 kilometer catamaran trip through the Patagonian fjords to the San Rafael Glacier. Most important thing for M was the open bar. Started at 7.30 and got back at 3am the following morning with a live band and free drinks all the way.
Weather was crap for most of the trip but it magically cleared up when we got to the glacier. Absolutely stunning, different blues and whites that changed every time you looked at it and great lumps calving off and crashing off into the sea with a crack followed by a great boom. The beauty made me cry but Marilyn said it was just because I was pissed. Although the glacier is massive and still 16 kilometers long it is receding quickly. Date markers on the mountain show that it is back about a kilometer since 1989 and it is estimated that it will completely be gone in 30 years.
Glaciers are really cold. I know I should have known this but the effect as you get up close is as if it is sucking all the heat from your body. Even a few metres makes a big difference.
After the easy travel in the rest and S America it all gets very difficult in Patagonia. There are these inconvenient stretches of ice fields, water and mountains everywhere.
We are staying in a cabin in Puerto Aysen, imagine Twin Peaks. All very luxurious with satellite TV and our own kitchen. Today, new year´s eve is very special
day. I even managed to find bacon and for the first time in 4 months we had bacon and egg for breakfast.
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Hi T&M, Dave J here, happy new year to both of you, good to see you're still on a low fat diet. Looks like you're having an great time, are you going to continue the trip round the rest of the world?
It was good to kick out the old year last night. see you when (if) you return
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