The Americas 2013

We woke up to an amazing morning and vista in Puerto Natales. Because we got in quite late yesterday we didn’t have an opportunity to appreciate just how spectacular this place truly is!! The hotel we stayed in was also fantastic and would certainly go back if I return to Puerto Natales.

Morning vista in Puerto Natales. Like I said yesterday,this is ocean and not a lake we are looking at!!

After breakfast we decided to go and walk around the town as we only had a short hop of 100km to the Torre del Paine national park, our destination for tonight. Puerto Natales can only be described as cute and quaint and can see why people rave about this little place.

Quirky and quaint!

We left Puerto Natales at about 12:30. Everybody that we had spoken to said that Torre del Paine was one of the most spectacular places they had ever seen, and based on the ride in, they weren’t wrong. It is special!

Each corner we came around was just another picture perfect scenery, it really is an explorers dream place.

We are spending this evening at a hotel called Lago Grey (Lake Grey). The setting is fantastic on the shores of the lake and the rooms are great but the service is super shyte! Needless to say,one of the reasons that we chose this place above the many accommodation options in the park was because of setting. Lake Grey exists because at its head lies the Grey Glacier whose melting over the millennia is what primarily feeds the lake. The lake is scattered with electric blue icebergs that have broken off this ancient glacier and bob around for months until they melt and we felt that this was a must see whilst in the area.

We decided to take a boat out at about 6pm to get closer to the glacier which was an incredible experience.

Grey Glacier from a distance. It is about 4km wide, 70km long and approx 500m deep so the photo does this scale no justice.

…and a slightly closer up view…!!

One of the bobbing icebergs…This is about the size of a house.

And my favourite pic of the day!!