View of a Glacier from Helicopter

A date with 2 glaciers..

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January 11th 2008
We let the natural rhythms wake us up this morning, and after deciding it was too dark to do anything at 5:30am, got another 2 hours of sleep then prepared for our 400km round trip to the glaciers Franz Josef and Fox. Just 13km into the drive we found a one way bridge that was shared by the train...hmmm, makes you wonder about the engineers here. Half way to the glaciers, we stopped for a pee an ... read more

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The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more