Glacierland

Published: May 29th 2012Oceania » New Zealand » South Island
May 28th 2012

Reflections of Fox Glacier

Next day, on to the Glaciers. We started off at Fox Glacier and walked to the base of it - quite impressive. We had been advised to drive in the opposite direction to visit Lake Matheson which turned out to be very good advice. A 90 minute walk around the lake gave us views of the mountains but with excellent reflections on the still waters of the lake - a must for visitors. A drive further out again, about 4km (note the local free tourist map is not to scale) gave a grand distant view of the upper reaches of Fox Glacier. Again, very impressive. Next we went further north to Franz Joseph Glacier. This is an even more impressive sight than the Fox, especially from a distance. There is a viewpoint about 10 minutes from the car park which is very good -recommended. The walk to the base of the glacier, 45min each way is quite good, with impressive cliffs cut out by the glacier to your side. We stayed overnight at a commercial site in Franz Joseph Town, wallowing in a long nice hot shower.

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David Blewitt

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David is a former lecturer in Electronic Engineering who decided to take early retirement and escape the madness of working in a Further Education College. Valda is his wife, who also recently retired. Both of us decided to try out something a bit more adventurous than taking a package holiday, and set out to see a bit of the world "down under" before popping our clogs. Family living there say it is great, so we are off to see if anything there could replace Whitley Bay as the Centre of the Universe. (Not really possible, but we should look).... full info

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Fox Glacier

Distant view

Fox Glacier

A distant view from Miles away

Fox Glacier

From about one and a half miles away, the base of Fox

Fox Glacier

Close to the base

Fox Glacier

Valda and David feeling the cold

Close up of Foxes Base

Downland of Fox

Classical U shaped valley. Valley bottom is like a gravel pit - total wasteland

Mount Cook Range

Reflections in Lake Matheson of the Cook Range

Downland of Fox

Classical U shaped valley. Valley bottom is like a gravel pit - total wasteland

Cook Range from Lake Matheson

Mount Tasman?

Mount Cook Range

Feeds the glaciers. Mount Tasman or Mount Cook?

Mount Tasman?

Mount Cook Range

Feeds the glaciers. Mount Tasman or Mount Cook?

Franz Joseph Glacier

David and Franz Joseph

Franz Joseph Glacier

Valda and Franz J

Franz Joseph Glacier

Double Click on the photo to enlarge it, and note the size of the two people on the phote to get an idea of the scale.

Franz Joseph Glacier

View to the top. Surprisingly, it looks less impressive close up. It has shrunk significantly in the last century

Franz Joseph Glacier

View to the top. Surprisingly, it looks less impressive close up. It has shrunk significantly in the last century

Franz Joseph Glacier

Another view towards the top. The last view before we moved on.

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Warren
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Date: 29th May 2012

Smaller?
The base of the Glaciers seems to have receded since we were there but they still look as fantastic towards the top

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Ken Heath
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Date: 30th May 2012

Scout Camp over there
It really looks wonderful, any good cap sites. I hope you are having a great time

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