Day 3 was arguably my favourite day on the Paine circuit. We slept in because it was really rainy and windy when we woke up at first. By the time we actually got up, it was nice out and the tent was dry, so that was amazing! Oatmeal breakfast again. We set out and hiked all day through native Chilean forest. It was beautiful walking through the trees and beside glacial streams and waterfalls. The water there was so clean and clear, you can just drink the water straight from the streams because you can usually see the glacier the water is coming from in teh distance. Plus it is so cold and fresh tasting, delicious!
This day was full of highlights. First we saw a pair of Magellanic woodpeckers in the forest in a tree right in front of us. We were hoping to see this bird on our trip at some point, so seeing a pair so close up was spectacular. They are really cool looking, the male with a bright red head and the female with a black mohawk. Love em! We continued on and had lunch beside an amazing waterfall and river going through a rocky canyon. We continued to criss cross the Rio Los Perros over hand built wooden bridges. We started to gain elevation and eventualy popped out of the forest on to the terminal moraine (thank you Dr. Nick Eyles for my glacial knowledge!) of Glacier Los Perros. It was so incredibly windy that we could barely stand up straight, but the glacier was amazingly beauriful since it looked like a waterfall of ice cascading down a mountain pass so we had to stay and snap a few pics.
We settled into camp and had tea with some new friends from the hike and called it a night.
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