We set the alarm to get up at sunrise!! We had arrived in south western Chile where there are a number of inlets and fjords along the coast. Going out onto the balcony it was obvious it was cold (5C/41F), raining and dark. We didn’t sign up for this!
The object of this rash behaviour was to view the Amalia Glacier in the Bernardo O’Higgins National Park (got to love these S. American names!)
The glacier is 3kms (1.8miles) wide where it enters the water, about 220ft thick and 32km (20miles) long. It changed from dark to light fairly quickly so we got to see more of the surrounding area. As we got closer to the glacier there were many small “icebergs” in the water, probably the largest was around 4ft x 8ft and only a foot or so above the water. We were lucky, as we were in Alaska, to see a small amount of the glacier breaking away and falling into the water. The colours in the glacier varied from blue through white to a dirty brown.
As usual, I’ll just put a few pictures up to give you an idea of what we saw.
We spent the rest of the morning cruising back out of the fjords to the ocean.
Shortly we will exit the calm waters and back out into a rough Pacific Ocean for a few hours on our way to Puntas Arenas.
Somehow, today has become delayed, maybe because we went back to bed after the glacier! 1000 breakfast, 1400 lunch! After lunch we felt “obliged” to take a turn around the deck (as they say in the old movies). It was windy, cool and the ship was back to pitching and rolling. I took a couple of pictures on our way.
There was also a fruit/vegetable carving demonstration on board by a couple of the ships chefs.
