Blogs from Fox Glacier, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania - page 8

On my way up the West Coast decided to stop in Fox Glacier for a day. It's a natural but it sounds great! Fox Glacier the village is a tiny place, it's basically just one short street with a lot of confused looking hikers wandering about. To get on the glacier itself you'd have to pay at least $100, so we decided to just do a gentle walk to the look-out point to admire from a distance. Ended up being through a jungle, and miles down a road, but it was still nice. Once we got to the look-out, and admired the view for a bit, this Kea just flew out of nowhere and hung around for a bit. It kind of seemed like it was trying to sidle round to the bench to pinch our ... read more

a short entry this a.m. ... getting ready to go up on Fox Glacier (pronounced glassier). Posting a few pics from an incredible drive to the west coast of NZ. will have to add descriptions later ... suffice to say, we experienced 4 seasons in one day and the terrain and the stunning beauty of at least 4 continents. This place is truly amazing. When God was making the earth, he must've had the most fun creating New Zealand. Astonishing scenes that can't really be captured by human-created technology. Gotta see it with your eyes, brain, mind, and heart!!... read more

The journey between Nelson and Franz Josef is a painstaking 9 hour trip in a minivan. Quite ridiculous really, that New Zealand is considered a developed country, yet every single South American country I got a bus in (and yes this includes Bolivia) the bus service was much better, and more comfortable. Something to work on for our kiwi friends methinks. Not much to report on the journey, apart from the stop we made at Punaikaiki, which left just enough time for a gander at the pancake rocks, so called because they're formed in layers and look a bit like... pancakes. Who'd have thought? I arrived in Franz Josef, and tried to book myself onto a glacier walk on the glacier of the same name the next day. Unfortunately, my luck wasn't in, as the trip ... read more

Heh ho peeps and freaks and other forms of mutants who like to keep in touch with this bill bloggin flogging story post making earth shaking input that gets typed through my fingers…! If it at all ever makes any sense, you are better persons than the likes of a being like me is to be able to understand it…! So yeah, I’m still in bloody Bolivia, when in fact I’ve travelled 4 weeks through Argentina, saw loads of other stuff (including 2 more Christs, and a lot more mountains)…then I jumped on a jet plane for the first time in 5 months…WOW….that experience deffo beats a bus any day - 11 hours on a plane…I could travel to space and be happy on a plane after my toll with buses over the last 6 months!!! ... read more

I have done this most thriling memorable adventure in Fox Galicer. SKY DIVE from 12,000ft arund 3.6km height The wonderfull views of tasman sea and rain forests and fox glacier from top made this moment a very beautiful one... ... read more