January 28, 2017 – Cruising by Glaciers to Ushuaia, Argentina, 2017 Cruise to South American & Cape Horn

January 28, 2017 – Ushuaia, Argentina

Wake-up call at 4:30am and we actually made it! Very excited to see the glaciers because we have never taken an Alaska cruise. The glaciers were as follows: Espania 4:35am, Romanche 5:13am, Alemania 5:30am, Francia 5:42am, Italia 5:47am and Hollanda 6:30am. It was still rather dark when we passed the first, but you could still make it out. The others were clearly visible all less than 1/4 mile from the ship. The good news is that they were on our side of the ship so we could see them all up close from our balcony. Having never actually seen a glacier, we were not disappointed. The colors in the ice was amazing. Sadly there was a waterfall from the base of one which meant it was slowly melting.  A couple of others you could see where they had melted back and retreated up the valley they had carved between two mountains as the reverse from the last ice age. Two of the largest glaciers still came down to the edge of the water and had shown no evidence of retreating. It was a spectacular 1 1/2 hour show. By 6:30am we were back in bed as the ship moved on to Ushuaia.

Sorry for the dark pictures.  I don't have the best camera and it was VERY EARLY IN THE MORNING.

Glacier coming down to the water a water fall.