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<\/a><\/p>\nThe photo below shows the glacier\u2019s leading edge as we walked up to it. The gravel in the foreground was dropped as the glacier has receded over the years \u2013 a century ago, the glacier filled this entire basin and extended out into the ocean. The photo below shows what I actually found most interesting about seeing the head of the glacier up close. Here you can see the large hole out from which flows a river of water that runs under the glacier.<\/p>\n There were many other things that caught my eye as we walked to and from the glacier. Below are two photos of, what I thought was a beautiful waterfall coming down the side of the valley leading to the glacier. Since the stream that feeds these falls runs through a tropical rain forest, the water in these falls is not ice cold. So, on a warm day (but not this day), you can see people frolicking in the spray from these falls with the glacier in the background.<\/p>\n Continuing a theme that I started several days ago, below are two shots of lichen and other small plants that caught my eye. Finally, I was struck by how the roots of the small tree shown below found, and then opened further, a crack in this large boulder and now draw sustenance and support from it. Continuing south, the road snaked over a number of ridges. Between each pair of ridges was a flat, fertile river floodplain that invariably supported a few cattle and sheep stations. This church appears to be the center of one of these small communities. Next to the church, I photographed the gorgeous red-orange flowers, shown in the photo below, which we had seen repeatedly along the highway.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nI found the people photographing the glacier, or themselves with the glacier as a backdrop almost as interesting as the glacier itself.
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