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  • El Calafate Birds

    There were a lot of birds in El Calafate.

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    Some were doing yoga.

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    Downward dog is hard with wings

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    The birds were pretty.

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    And they knew it.

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    The white ones and the brown ones are usually together.

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    They can fly

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    Like most birds.

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    There were red bellied birds

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    I don’t know what they are

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    And I’m too lazy to look it up.

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    These are flowers. I’m not sure why Kerri put them in the bird post.

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    This is also not a bird.

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    This is a bird.

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  • El Calafate Lake

    The lake in El Calafate is a really pretty turquoise colour.

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    The lake at the back, by the mountains, not the one in the front.

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    Unfortunately it’s really hard to get a picture of.

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    Because from most places it’s just a sliver of lake on the horizon.

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    And if you get close to the lake the turquoise is still a tiny line on the horizon.

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    That disappears entirely when the island is in the way.

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    It’s narrow even if you zoom in.

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    When you get up higher it’s wider but not as bright.

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    But it’s there if you zoom in.

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    When you get way up it covers more of the lake.

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    Matt made Kerri climb really high but you could barely see the lake from the top.

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  • El Calafate

    El Calafate is a town near the mountains.

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    It is named after these berries

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    It reminded us of Lethbridge

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    Being in the foothills

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    And very windy

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    And cold

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    And dry

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    But it was pretty

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    They also had an imported Douglas Fir to make it feel like home.

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    But there weren’t many natural trees around

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    They have a big glacier museum in the middle of nowhere.

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    They also have a wooden slide.

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    Which is an even worse idea than a metal slide in the sun.

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    It is a pretty town.

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