It occurred to me, and I shared this insight with Judy, Sharon and Luis while walking back from visiting Aquila glacier: “Every drop of water starts at the top of the mountain and faithfully obeys the laws of nature: gravity, thermodynamics, Newton’s, Einstine’s and all the other laws of nature. No one drop, no one molecule, no one atom can deviate from those laws. Yet every glacier starts with individual drops of water, which follow the same laws, yet end up talking on such different characteristic.” All three gave me a blank stare. Sharon said, rolling her eyes, “That’s exactly what I was thinking.” Oh well, but do you get my drift? We’ve bagged two more glaciers today but we still haven’t seen two that are at all similar.

The Condor glacier isn’t really named that but there are sometimes condors to be seen (a large soaring bird somewhat like an albatross). But the glacier is big and was fun to visit via zodiac. In the afternoon we viewed the Aguila glacier from the ship; no landing at this one. The two were at one time connected but they have receded so that the connection was lost.

Both glaciers are located in the de Agostini sound, which is located in the Alberto de Agostini National Park. Father Agostini, worked with native peoples in Patagonia during the first half of the twentieth century. The government of Chile both the bay and national park in his honor.

Again, today was all about the scenery and so I’ve posted way too many pictures!

Tomorrow, penguin day on Magdalena Island, then we’re off the ship and on the bus bound for Puerto Natales and the Tierra del Paine National Park.