23: Lago Grey, Parque Nacional de Torres del Paine (Chile)

Lago Grey, Parque Nacional de Torres del Paine (Chile)

11 comments so far...

Fenja February 27, 2011, 07:44 PM

:-0 Great!

GSoares February 27, 2011, 08:03 PM

;o)

Fenja February 28, 2011, 07:49 PM

Like a painting of Caspar David Friedrich.

GSoares February 28, 2011, 09:06 PM

Wow! Thanks!

richy March 01, 2011, 05:00 PM

I agree Fenja. This is wonderful. A little iceberg in the background?

GSoares March 01, 2011, 06:34 PM

I'm flattered, Richy. Thanks!. Yes, it's an iceberg. On the north There is a glacier out of sight of this picture.

mramshaw March 14, 2011, 01:33 AM

Never got this far south but these blasted Patagonian trees might have made the trip worthwhile.

Weather there is supposed to be reliably awful, looks like your trip was not bad.

Thanks for posting, any idea how old that tree is?

GSoares March 14, 2011, 02:13 AM

Hello, mramshaw! February is summer in Patagonia. Temperature range from 5 to 20 degrees celsius. The weather is unpredictable, but we were lucky. This tree (Nothofagus antartica) must be over 50 years... Maybe much more. I can not be precise. Under the conditions of the site, it grows very slowly.

mramshaw March 14, 2011, 07:38 PM

Thanks for the reply, I know the age of the 'dwarf' trees there is often very surprising.

Kind of like Bonsai, only natural.