Snapshots: Patagonia

We explored for 16 days, traveling 2,700 miles.  That’s equivalent to voyaging from Nome, Alaska to Baja California!  And it was a true expedition, taking us into uncharted fjords and onto untracked trails, with no civilization in sight.  The ‘wows’ never ended on this trip.  Patagonia is truly a timeless, forested, ice and snow-capped wilderness wonderland.

Indescribable!

Epic, vast, amazing, awesome, panoramic, majestic, breathtaking  .  .  .  You choose the superlative.  But perhaps indescribable says it best.  Whenever we’re on a hike, a bus, a zodiac or a kayak, it’s most always there.  And the ship has so much glass that the scenery is everywhere we look when we’re aboard.  We see it in the common spaces, from our cabin windows and balconies, and even from the aft-deck hot tub.

Glaciers!

We’re told there are more than 26,000 glaciers in Patagonia!  We’ve seen four up-close and many others from a distance, and no image does them justice.  They’re gigantic blue-hued frozen flows of cracking and crumbling chaos.

So Much Green!

From a tight carpet of tiny ground cover plants to towering tall trees, it’s green, green springtime in the Patagonian Rain Forest.

Paddling and Cruising

Ice! We found our first icebergs today, and paddled and cruised among them in Kayaks and Zodiacs.