PATAGONIA-El Calafate

After 3 days in El Chalten we caught a bus back to El Calafate which is the only town in Patagonia with an airport. We flew in there days before but never saw the town, so now we have come back. We spend our time in the area between hiking around a lake called Lago Roca and going to the Perito Moreno Glacier. All the pictures in this post are of our day spend at Lago Roca. This lake is fed by the Perito Moreno Glacier and is an hour outside of the town. It seemed pretty remote when we got there in the morning but as the day went on many Argentinians came with their families to picnic. It really was a pretty place to go and take a rest day. We don't have any good pictures of them but the shoreline on one side of the lake was completely pink because it was full of flamingos which come here during the summer.

We hiked around the lake and then up a hillside to a meadow out of the wind for a picnic. We ate a bunch then ended up falling asleep in the sun for two hours. We both sun burned our faces which peeled until we got back to the humidity of Dominica.
We wandered through this forest which had green mossy stuff hanging from every branch. They all swayed in the wind which kind of made it seem eerie, I think it made Liz nervous.

The snow covered peak in the distance is where the glacier ends in a lake that feeds into this one.



I saw this rock while we were walking along the lake shore. It looked like a hard boiled egg that had been cracked but not opened. We looked at it for a while and debated whether or not to touch it. I barely touched my finger to the top of it and the entire rock collapsed into a hundred pieces. It scared me for a second as if I had acquired a some new power to destroy things with the touch of my finger. As I looked at the pile of uniform pieces it seemed as if the rock had made the decision to die, as if it's time had come. Maybe all these rocks had silent lives that were all destine to end at some time