Rebecca M. Douglass, Author

I'd hoped to have a sneak preview, at least, of my photos from my most recent trip, but I've been a total scatterbrain, and haven't done much more than upload the lot of them to my computer. So we're back to Patagonia. One day we drove to the very end of the road beyond El Chaltén, to Lago del Desierto, where you can take a ferry up the lake and get off in Chile (or walk a trail; either way you go through immigration at the far end of the lake). We didn't do that--we'd already been in Chile--but we looked at the lake, then hiked to nearby Huemul lake. Huemules are a sort of Patagonian deer. Apparently we started the day with another visit to the sunrise viewpoint. These two are my photos. Dave shooting the sunrise. First light on Fitzroy. Trivia note: Fitzroy was renamed from Chaltén in 1877 by the Argentinian explorer Perito Moreno (see Perito Moreno Glacier ), in honor of the captain of the HMS Beagle (Darwin's ship). Only then did we drive the 15 or 20 mi...

I'm not in a position to respond to comments right away, but if you leave one, I'll see it eventually! I've been working my way through our 2020 trip to Patagonia and sharing some of my late husband's photos, with an occasional picture of my own (assume they are his unless I indicate otherwise). Today we'll take a look at the spectacular Lago de los Tres (I don't recall if we ever figured out three whats). The trail was 14.6 miles and nearly 4000' of climbing. I think I was younger then! Glacial river. We definitely made an early start. An intermediate lake with good views.   After climbing up and up forever, you pop over a ridge... ... and there you are! We had some cool cloud stuff going on while up there. Despite our early start, the lake had a lot of people around (some of whom can be seen here if you look carefully). It's a jump-off point for serious climbers, and there's a campsite 3/4 of the way up, so many got there ahead of us.  We saw Andea...

I've been rummaging around in the blog, and find that I never finished my report on our trip to Patagonia in 2020. That's not surprising (I was actually more surprised to find that I'd done any posts at all, as that was the last trip I did with my husband, and he was killed just weeks after returning home). I'm not going to do a report, but I think I'll share some of Dave's fantastic photos from the parts of that trip I didn't report on.  On one day, we did a cruise on Lago Argentina, which included cruising by the Perito Moreno Glacier, which we'd visited the previous day from the land side. This glacier has been in the news because at that point, it was one of very few worldwide that was still advancing--and it is now in retreat. Read more about that at Karen Grove's excellent Landscapes Revealed blog.  Meanwhile, enjoy some of Dave's photos. He was a much better photographer than I am. We're way up an arm of the lake, and I think that we ...