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Chile and Easter Island

Cemetery on the hillside
It does not look like a large area falling but it is massive. It can cause large waves and you do not want to be on the water in a zodiac when it comes at you.
Calving, is the breaking of ice chunks from the edge of a glacier. It is a form of ice ablation or ice disruption and is normally caused by the glacier expanding.
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We are not Hippies - We are Happies - local art graffiti
Now you can see the size of the calving in the distance with the small zodiacs in the foreground going back to the ship.
A large piece has just slipped out of the ice shelf.
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The  reflection in the still water was incredible.
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Street art.. graffiti
The glacier Amalia from some distance.
Calving just  beginning from the ice shelf above.
The ice is thousands of feet high.

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