Boat ride through Parque de los Glaciars
Trip Start
Nov 16, 2007
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Trip End
Dec 02, 2007
El Calafate,
Argentina
Monday, November 26, 2007
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We opted for the VIP tickets which was the best extra $10 we spent. We were in the captain's club with about 6 other people (it held 30)
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which included white leather seats and personal service which included coffee, champagne, scotch, seats in the front top of the boat and private balconies. Sweet livin.
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Lisa is notoriously car/sea sick but she was perpared with her patch.
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Our main destination was the Upsala glacier, which is the biggest glacier in all of South America (3 miles wide, 37 miles long and 197 feet high. About 4 days earlier, almost the entire front of the glacier broke off, so we had some trouble getting close to it earlier in the day.
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Instead we visited the Spegazzie sp? glacier which is the tallest in the park and one of the few glaciers in the world that is actually growing.
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They were all incredible. it was really cool seeing the glaciers up close from a different angle this time (looking up) then the day before. Navigating through the broken off icebergs was a trip too. They were so many different colors and shapes.
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We eventually made it back to Upsala and got reasonably close.
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Eventually the crew hauled up a small iceberg and we once again we were served scotch over Glacier ice.
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Overall another amazing day among the glaciers. A once in a lifetime opportunity that we will never forget.
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