The glacier in the distance. The little red boat hold about 100 people.
We could see a spit of land reaching into the river with lots of people walking along it from our room. Turns out it’s a gravel bar that we walked to a view point where we could see more of Glacier Gray 10 miles distant. Along the way we picked up a few bits of iceberg chunks.
We had a wonderful parilla (BBQ) lunch at a campground with a nice view of the mountain. The winds are still blowing hard! About an hour after lunch and in the direction of Las Torres Hotel, we stopped to view Salto Grande. Salto mean ‘jump’ and is more of a cascade between lakes than a waterfall. It connects Nordenskjold Lake and Pehoe Lake. As we walked up the hill to the viewing platform we were warned that it was very windy, hold your hat and glasses. The winds had to have been blowing 60-80 mph! We had to hold onto the platform railing to keep from being blown over! In fact as two ladies were walking back to the bus a gust picked them up and knocked then down! Skinned elbows and some bruising was their only injury but bigger men had to help them back! It was crazy!
Wind gusts estimated to be as high as 80 mph.
We did not take the next hike but we stopped often to take pictures. Las Torres Hotel is the same place we stayed 5 years ago. In fact, as we drove from the waterfall we passed the cafe where we spent 5 hours waiting for a van to pick us up and we had no idea there was a waterfall nearby.
We are all worried about tomorrow’s hike in these high winds. It is very warm today (68) which may be contributing to the windy conditions. Fingers crossed that it dies down.
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