Fox-Glacier

26th November 2009 Glorious blue skies (although still cloudy over the mountains) at 7am this morning, so we were up and off, back to Franz Joseph for our walk to hopefully get some clear views of the glacier before the cloud cover came in. Not surprisingly, the glacier was even more spectacular with the blue sky backdrop than it was yesterday covered in grey cloud, so we set off. The walk started as an easy gravel path to Peter’s Pool, this is a kettle pool formed when a block of ice is left behind by a retreating glacier and the foliage grows around it. Not quite still enough to get a perfect reflection of the glacier and the mountains. We continued on through native rainforest before arriving at our first, long swing brige crossing the river floor. ...

27th November 2009 This morning revealed that the glorious weather we had yesterday had once again left us, and it was pretty miserable and cold. We left the holiday park we’d spent the night at and pulled over in Fox Village for a morning coffee before making the 3km journey down the road to Fox Glacier itself. Fox Glacier is smaller than Franz Josef. From a viewpoint a few yards from the carpark you can get quite a good view of the glacier and its terminal face. Having done Franz Josef yesterday, and with the weather not being up to much we settled for taking a couple of snaps from here and heading on down the road. ...

25th November 2009 I think one of the hightlights of the campervan trip so far has to be when we both got up at 3am to go and use the facilities. Since we were in such a remote spot, with very little ambiant light, the stars studded the sky like diamonds, beautiful. I was so enthralled by it that I just stood there for 10 minutes looking up, just a perfect night sky, and I even saw a satellite passing through. ...