This is the fifth in a series of posts about our trip to Patagonia, which took place during the first few weeks in 2020, before the entire human race began playing tag with a deadly virus and “social distancing” was in response to somebody’s bad breath or body odor. Ah, how we crave the “old normal”.
In our last post we were hanging out at the Blue Lagoon and getting our very last look at the Fitz Roy Massif. We said goodbye to the nice folks at the very remote Estancia Helsingfors and headed to one of Argentina’s major tourist attractions , the Perito Moreno glacier.
Presently, ten percent of land area on Earth is covered with glacial ice. Covered areas encompass nearly six million square miles and there are thousands of glaciers worldwide. So what makes this particular one so special? Quite a lot, it turns out.