Clouds

You may have noticed from the glacier photos that the weather was quite overcast on the Beagle Channel; but at times, the clouds were quite interesting, as in this photo.

Alemania Glacier

We're back sailing along the Beagle Channel in Chile. As you may know the Beagle Channel is named for the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin's ship during his explorations in this area in the 1830's. To see Darwin's timeline : http://www.aboutdarwin.com/timeline/time_04.html#0040

The Alemania Glacier is very large and now does not come all the way to the water, as it must have in the past.

Francia Glacier

The next major glacier we saw while sailing the Beagle Channel was the Francia Glacier. It comes down to the water, unlike the last glacier we saw, but since it was the end of summer, there was no floating ice.

Italia Glacier

Cruising on the Beagle Channel after leaving Punta Arenas, we passed several glaciers, Italia Glacier being the first one. If you Google it, you will see that my photo shows that it is rapidly receding. The waterfall coming out of it attests to its melting. It's pretty frightening.

I'm away for the weekend and the next daily photo will be Tuesday May 5