West Coast Glaciers Part II - Fox

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I finally tried West Coast Whitebait on my first night in Fox. Whitebait season has just finished and I had them in an omellette which is how they do them round here. It was quite strange to cut into an omellette and find loads of white worm-like things coming out; very good anyway.

It poured all day on the full day I had in Fox, but I was determined to see the glacier. The shuttle bus wasn't availible when I wanted to go so I set of walking. I had been going about half an hour and was starting to get a little wet but I was able to save the other half an hour's walk by sticking out my thumb and getting a lift with a German couple on holiday up to the glacier car park. It was really raining but I walked along the path to where I'm sure there are amazing views sometimes. It was still great to see the glacier, but all I could concentrate on was not getting my camera wet!

Back at the car park I looked around to see if any friendly looking people were getting into their cars ready to drive off, but I could see no-one fitting that description. I set off on the walk back and was starting to realize, while getting soaked through, that if you only have a cheap rain jacket you will get wet quickly. After cursing at everycar that didn't stop to give me a lift a couple of German girls stopped in their campervan and saved me the last 20 minutes walk back. The afternoon was spent in front of the fire drying off my clothes.

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