South Island trip - part 2: Fox Glacier & Franz Josef

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After leaving Queenstown, we drove to Fox Glacier. It was again a beautiful drive, first through the sunny hills and plains between Queenstown and Wanaka, and then through the impressive rainforest… in the rain! We took some breaks from driving, Michiel and I went to look at the sea and got very wet and cold (the waves were a little higher and faster than we had expected…) but it was a lot of fun. When we arrived in Fox Glacier it was still raining however, so we were afraid that the heli-hike to the Franz Josef glacier the next day would be cancelled. But lucky as we were, the weather cleared the next day (allegedly we were in the only dry place in New Zealand at that moment), so Michiel and I could go onto the glacier (my mum passed on that one). A helicopter took us up to the glacier, were we put on spikes under our boots and hiked for two hours on the ice. It was very impressive, such masses of ice, constantly changing, with the most beautiful colours, especially in the blue caves that formed here and there. The guide used an ice axe to make a sort of path in the ice on which we could walk, so it was pretty rough terrain, and I was thankful for the spikes under my shoes!

After the glacier we went for a walk around Lake Matheson, which was also very beautiful. And we still couldn’t believe our luck with such good weather when it was raining all over New Zealand!

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Comments

[Melina]

uhm
soooooo dat ziet er cool uit :-D leuk brilletje btw ;-) xx melina

[Michelle]

damn wijffie ik wordt jaloers.. sorry voor mn late reactie maar had t simpelweg te druk om je travelblogs bij te houden.... hou van jou, mis je! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (zo ff wat speekseloverdracht)