We arose at 6:30 to break camp and begin our driving tour of the park. We were ready to load the two vans when they arrived a little after 9:00. For some reason it took awhile to get things moving once we were loaded. We then drove to the Laguna Amarga entrance and moved all of the baggage onto the Green Machine. We then sat there for more than an hour while Angel waded through the red tape of the park bureaucracy. We didn't leave there until almost 1:00. We had a rented van and the Green Machine.

We drove for nearly an hour to Laguna Azul, passing several herds of Guanacos. We stopped at the Río de los Torres and looked at the waterfall cascading over the Jurassic Tobifera Formation. We stopped at the east end of Laguna Azul. One group took a short hike along the north shore. Another group of us climbed part way up the high hill to the north. The summits of the towers remained in the clouds, but we could see 7 or 8 kame terrace levels on the hill to the south. We returned to the vehicles and Angel had a lunch prepared for us. We ate in sheltered spots out of a fairly strong wind off of the lake.

We drove for more than an hour past Lago Pehoe to the narrow bridge that leads to Lago Grey . The Green Machine is toowide to cross the bridge so the park van went ahead to drop those students off to hike to the Mirador. Adam, John, and Tim went swimming in the lake and dove off of a grounded iceberg.

The rest of us waited at the bridge in the green machine and watched two crested caracaras hunting in the strong wind above the grass. A hare did not seem to notice them and they paid no attention to the hare. When the van finally returned, we switched vehicles. The first group headed to the Lago Pehoe campsite and we went to Lago Grey.

The hike to the Mirador is easy and very pleasant. The trail goes over a suspension bridge across the Río Grey and crosses a low rise before descending to the beach. A tombolo (at least in high water) connects to a rocky island against which icebergs are grounded. The trail leads out to the north end of the island. Although we could see the towers when we first reached the beach, they were totally hidden by clouds when we got to the overlook. We could, however, see the Grey Glacier at the north end of the lake.

We returned to the van a little after 8:00 and drove through the rain to Lago Pehoe. The campsite was windy, an English group had spread out over most of it so we were forced to camp between them which irritated them to no end. Again, dinner was around midnight the wind picked up as we ate. After dinner I went to bed and slept soundly through the windstorm.

Overall, this was a frustrating day with lots of time standing around waiting. With great hindsight, I would not have moved the campsite and would have rented two smaller vans to cross the narrow bridges.