Glaciers

It is an incredible experience to explore the southern end of the world. Ushuaia has 80,000 people, there is a tiny town on the Chilean side just a little south called Puerto Williams. We didn’t stop there.

Leaving Ushuaia behind, we doubled back during the night, so I may have seen Puerto Williams, or maybe I just saw this view again.

So the four days we spent in the Beagle Channel, it was just us and another Ship from the same company. I’m sure there was some Chilean Naval activity, but really no other humans around. Each day we would stop and see one or two glaciers, just a few among many.

We didn’t get off in zodiacs to see this one, it was rather incredible how close we got onboard our ship. I have the names written down, but really, it doesn’t matter what these are called.

Glaciers are amazing, on the right side of the photo you can see a tributary glacier coming into this large one.

As we left this glacier, the water is strewn with ice from the caving.

Another one, this one doesn’t calve much anymore it is in retreat. I’m going to say something that will probably lose me some readers. I’m sick and tired of the religion of Global warming. Some of the glaciers are retreating and others are growing. But everywhere, at every stop we were preached at about global warming.

With its’ own reflection.

I’m not saying the earth isn’t warming, actually I’ve been reading that it might be cooling. Are we humans responsible? I don’t think so. Nature is always changing. At every stop we were told about ancient history, where glaciers grew, then receded and left this amazing landscape of fjords. So why is it that now any kind of change is forbidden? That it must spell catastrophe? Maybe the world is always changing?

This is a growing glacier, sure it calves a lot, that is what glaciers do, but the fact that there is pure clean water pouring out of bottom of the glacier – means this one is growing rapidly.

When the Doomsayers who claim that the world will end in 12 years start living like they truly believe it – then maybe I’ll pay attention. The way I see it, this is simply a way to control the little people and make our lives miserable. Meanwhile, if it’s because of the sun that we are either warming or cooling, there is nothing we as humans can do and I intend to simply enjoy life.

The zodiacs got pretty close, we floated among the ice.

As for being green, another ploy, a way to virtue signal. I live my life in a very simple manner, I don’t advertise how amazing I am. Instead of tooting my own horn, I simply live a good life. As a Jew, we are commanded to be stewards of the earth. There is a difference between being responsible and making nature and global warming a religion. I am eternally grateful that I am able to take a trip like this and I’m not going to pretend that I can ‘buy’ indulgences in the form of global warming credits. Some members on our tour seemed to feel that they have bought absolution that way.

Another glacier, another waterfall.

Rant is over, now it’s on to simply more pictures of our amazing world. I know that very few people will actually be blessed to see these wonders.

How cute is the guy holding this block of ice? It is crystal clear because the pressure of the glacier forces every drop of air out of the ice, which is also why there is so much blue in a glacier, no air to interfere with the blue light bouncing back at us.

I really love my camera. Often I didn’t have time to really set up shots and doing everything manually. It was either on aperture or speed setting. But boy did the camera perform well. I have many pictures where I cropped the image in editing, and the crop is as sharp as the whole image. Case in point, I was able to capture this window in the ice.

Reflections are an amazing thing. Especially when the camera is so good.

I do have more glacier pictures, but I’m going to wait for another post, and share something other than ice in the next one.

Leah

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