What an amazing place. The sheer size and grace and elegance of it. The changing colours and the constant sound. We could have spent days just sitting and watching
. The Moreno Glacier is part of the Patagonian Ice Field, and compared to others it isn't that big at all. But it's hard to comprehend. The Moreno is 60m high, and below the surface of the water, there lurks another 100m. Its face is 5kms wide, and has a total of 250sq kms. It travels 2ms a day, which is racing speeds in the glacier world. Every so often there is an almighty deep cracking sound and a slice, sometimes the size of a house, calves off. As it hits the water there is an odd stillness, the pieces are so enormous and heavy that they sink quite a way before rising to the surface again, causing torrential splashes of water and ripples that spead out across the lake for miles. 
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