Iceburgs and Whiskey

Ok, so part of our boat crusie brought erin and i to the San Rafael Glacier- adying glacier. The glacier is receeding and will be gone compeltely within the next few hundred years. It was an awesome sight to see. Thrilling and sad as you see huge chunks of ice falling off of the glacier and crashing in to the lake. The result of this is huge iceburgs floating around near the glacier, which thankfully our boat avoided (no titanics in chile so far). We took smaller boats around the glacier and iceburgs to tour the area. One of the most amazing things about the iceburgs is their color. They are literally electric blue and green. I´m told that this is because of the oxegen that gets into the ice. On a sunny day, the iceburgs just look white, but on a cloudy day (which we had) you can really see the true colors of the iceburgs. Another lovely part of this excursion was the drinking. By that i mean, our boat sided up to a big iceburg (pictured above), and the crew chipped off huge pieces of ice, which we used in combination with a 200 year old wiskey, the ice tasted amazingly good, unfortunatly, i can´t say the same for the whisky, YUCK! but it was pretty cold that day, so i forced myself to drink it down :)

Since the end of my cruise, i´ve stopped in Valdivia and Temuco, cute small towns in the southern lake region of Chile. I´m now in Pucon, where thankfully the weather has warmed up a bit. I´v e been sunning at the black sand beach (on a lake) by my hostal, looking at the snow covered Villarica Volcano, quite the contrast. Pucon is beautiful, and there´s tons to do here, today we´re going river rafting on a class 4 river ( class 5 is the highest). We´ll be heading to Santiago in a few days to spend the holiday´s with Erins family. I will be getting my phone set up in Santiago, and will post the details once i have them!! ciao!