Patagonia

So we took a flight down to Punta Arenas in the hopes of catching a sight of some penguins. And we really did :P Like thousands of them.. after the bird frenzy we spent two days getting to El Calafate (back to Argentina!) via Puerto Natales -- where we had to stay overnight -- to see the famous glacier Perito Moreno, named after the explorer Francisco Moreno.

	Heading out with a speedboat early in the morning towards Isla Magdalena, which sits right in the Strait of Magalhaes and hosts a colony of over a hundred thousand penguins.
	Cute funny little buggers!
	One can never see enough penguins! This is why you should check out the video we made (33M, DivX 5.2.1)
	More of sea lions.. damn they were friendlier back on Galapagos!
	Plaza de Independencia of Punta Arenas.. every town had one
	Lone piece of meat on a parrilla in Puerto Natales
	About to embark on a trip through the vast plains towards El Calafate.
	..and plains it was
	Finally in El Calafate, shiny happy as the weather
	looking for a hostel to stay at for the better part of an hour..
	..until landing into Calafate Hostel, where we perhaps should have started the tour from :) Very pleasant stay, and the cheapest option of the 3-4 ones we visited.
	That night we checked out the bird sanctuary in town and little else.. oh well some parrilla for dinner ;)
	Having El Pinguino wine for.. huh, dessert.
	Par-teeeh
	Next morning -- we head down to the national park and the glacier. Woot woot!
	The docks where the boat trips towards the glacier started from. The water's meltwater from the glaciers, so it retains this neato turquoise color.
	Almost missed taking a shot of this huge chunk of ice (probably the size of a house) coming off and splashing in the water, followed by a loud crack and a small tsunami.
	Now, this chunk came up from the water -- and thrice the size of the previous one, and generated a wave 3-4 meter high that actually rocked the boat quite nicely.
	Perito Moreno fact file: the wall of ice is 55-60 meters high and about 3-5km wide. Its one of the most known glaciers of the southern Patagonian icefield due to its easy access.
	Note the boat in the picture.. it is, say, 40-50 meters long and 10-15 meters high -- actually very big boat. Shows the proportions of the glacier somewhat.
	After the glacier we got a bit of bad news: the only flight out of town for 5 days would depart in 1.5 hours, so we had to hurry like crazy to make it -- Im guessing these two had everything they needed right here.