Me on Fox Glacier

Ice, ice baby!

---

December 12th 2006
The drive down to Fox was amazing. Just fabulously gorgeous. Mountain views (Mt. Cook and Mt. Tasman I think) all the way along. I kept stopping to take pics. The roads were fine. There was a 100k limit, 50k through the towns. They were a bit bendy, but not much different from a country-ish A road in the UK. Every now and then though, there were some major bendy bits! You get signs saying that the ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Glaciers

---

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