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- Puerto Natales プエルト・ナタレス -
The melting snow water, colder than expected.
雪解け水は予想以上に冷たかった。
- to El Calafate -
A short summer.
短い夏。
A bus on its way home stopped in front of me as a matter of course. A hitchhiker was invited to an empty bus that was going to run anyway. I told the driver where I was going, and the bus started running as a matter of course, so I felt at ease and fell asleep.
回送バスは当たり前に目の前に停まった。どうせ走る空っぽの車体に、当たり前に招かれたヒッチハイカー。当たり前に行き先を問われたから答え、当たり前に走り出したから安心してウトウト。
A dog herding a flock of sheep. A horse with a gaucho leading it. A prairie society that I had never known at all.
羊の群れを追い立てる犬。それを指揮するガウチョを乗せた馬。まったく知らなかった大草原社会。
Lake Argentina is the color of the national flag.
アルゼンチン湖は国旗の色。
- Glaciar Perito Moreno ペリト・モレノ氷河 -
Suddenly, a great glacier spread out right in front of me. A voice came out as if I had been poked in the back.
突然、目の前に広がる大氷河。思わず背中を突かれたような声が出た。
I was thinking that I couldn't really get a sense of the size of the glacier because there was nothing to compare it to, until I found a ship that looked like a pea.
比べるものが無いから大きさがよくわからない、と思っていたら、豆粒みたいな船が見えた。
A great glacier. It is not on the scale of a large frozen river.
大氷河。大河が凍ったどころのスケールじゃない。
An unbroken tug-of-war between internal and external temperatures. The tension is beautiful, both for the ice and the human body.
内温と外温との休み無き綱引き。その緊張感が美しいのだ、氷も人も。
This is a landscape that did not exist hundreds of millions of years ago, but in time, this landscape will disappear. I would love to show it to people hundreds of millions of years from now, but it will disappear. But don't worry. There will be another view. There will be another beauty.
数億年前には存在しなかった景色。やがて、この景色も消えてしまう。数億年後にも見せてあげたいけれど、消える。でも大丈夫。また違う景色がある。美しさも。
- El Calafate カラファテ -
Beef-eating night to satiate because we are in Argentina.
飽くまで牛肉を喰らうナイト。アルゼンチンだもの。
I think even primitive people ate together at first anyway, and that's how they became friends.
原始人だって、とにかく最初は一緒に飯食って、それで仲良くなったんだと思う。
It was not a mean of commemoration of our encounter, but we flew a small kite that soared on the principle of a balloon. The strong light that burned out just 30cm above our fingertips remains strangely in the back of my mind's eye.
出合った記念というわけではないけれど、気球の原理で上昇する小さな凧を揚げた。指先30cmで燃え尽きた強い光が、まだ妙に残ってる。
