Tuesday, December 21, 2021

19 December 2021 Torres del Paine: Overland Tour at the Pinnacles

 


The granite pinnacles here are not visible from where we were staying.  So I am glad that we were able to travel to the east side and see them.  I was not aware of the waterfall on the Paine River.  We were able to stop here and see the waterfall as well as getting misted on by the spray.  We saw the rainbow from the waterfall.  We also saw a group pf people hand an banner that was in Polish.  We guessed that it was a family reunion as we saw folks of all ages in the group.  We continued on and returned into the park along the front face of the mountains.  We saw more birds, Caracara and Buzzard Eagles, and then we arrived back at the hotel.


The waterfalls 


A whole lot of water flowing through a canyon


The Pinnacles in the background


Both channels of the waterfall


The hike into the base of the Pinnacles is 10 km in and 10 km out!  We decided to pass on that one.


Standing in the spray of the waterfall


Waterfall rainbow, is it a spraybow?


Tiny flowers on a very spine coverec bush


Polish Christmas


Time for the photo op


The canyon


Lots of granite


A guy out in the middle of nowhere taking a picture


A view of the French glacier


These mountains are made of two different types of rocks 


Fluffy looking


Returning to the park through an different gate


Almost back to the hotel


Love the colors!


Back for lunch and a wild mushroom salad