Fox Glacier

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On my way up the West Coast decided to stop in Fox Glacier for a day. It's a natural but it sounds great! Fox Glacier the village is a tiny place, it's basically just one short street with a lot of confused looking hikers wandering about. To get on the glacier itself you'd have to pay at least $100, so we decided to just do a gentle walk to the look-out point to admire from a distance. Ended up being through a jungle, and miles down a road, but it was still nice.

Once we got to the look-out, and admired the view for a bit, this Kea just flew out of nowhere and hung around for a bit. It kind of seemed like it was trying to sidle round to the bench to pinch our cameras, but that might be just me giving bad motives to a bird.

It seemed like a much shorter walk on the way back, and I didn't fall in the river this time either (it wasn't a complete fall the first time, only my foot). Got back to the hostel, watched a boat-load of films in the little cinema room, then went to bed before the hours-and-hours-and-hours in the bus tomorrow on the way to Nelson.

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Photos

The sea!
Stopped here on the way to Fox Glacier. Apparently the most Western point in NZ.

Walking there
"In the jungle, the mighty jungle . . . "

Glacier + Kea
The glacier was really far away, so it doesn't look that big here