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May 21st 2012
Published: May 21st 2012
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Wednesday 2nd May At 8.30 sharp we were over in the Fox Glacier Guiding office (just 2 min walk across the road from our campervan) to confirm our booking for the Heli-Hike up to the top of the glacier. They don't finalise your booking until the 'last minute' to ensure that all is well "up there" before your flight. We are quite impressed with the safety preparations and as Mary has n... Read Full Entry



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inside cave
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Daniela digging steps
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nearing the top
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waiting for pickup
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Ride home has arrived
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see bridge into Fox township



15th June 2012

Excellent Blog
As promised, I eventually got to reading your blog after you read mine. Your blog is very comprehensive and you have some excellent photos - where did you get the time to write it all. Good luck with any future expeditions and blogs.
19th June 2012

Comprehensive blog
Thank you David. Here we have to confess to a little "cheating". We used a small laptop with a plug in USB broadband thumbdrive (NZ Telecom) most of the way but eventually ran into probs with uploading times (took forever!) and finally it was too hard to keep up. Sitting up late into the night in the camper when we needed an early start...and so on. So..we decided to keep very detailed notes (Mary's diary) and then when we got home back in Perth (Aust) we did the blog in retrospect. Hope the tense and sense of "being there" was still retained. All the best Adrian & Mary. Oh! by the way, your pics are pretty good also. A cut above the others we have seen. Cheers.
19th June 2012

Comprehensive blog
Thank you David. Here we have to confess to a little "cheating". We used a small laptop with a plug in USB broadband thumbdrive (NZ Telecom) most of the way but eventually ran into probs with uploading times (took forever!) and finally it was too hard to keep up. Sitting up late into the night in the camper when we needed an early start...and so on. So..we decided to keep very detailed notes (Mary's diary) and then when we got home back in Perth (Aust) we did the blog in retrospect. Hope the tense and sense of "being there" was still retained. All the best Adrian & Mary. Oh! by the way, your pics are pretty good also. A cut above the others we have seen. Cheers.
19th June 2012

Comprehensive blog
Thank you David. Here we have to confess to a little "cheating". We used a small laptop with a plug in USB broadband thumbdrive (NZ Telecom) most of the way but eventually ran into probs with uploading times (took forever!) and finally it was too hard to keep up. Sitting up late into the night in the camper when we needed an early start...and so on. So..we decided to keep very detailed notes (Mary's diary) and then when we got home back in Perth (Aust) we did the blog in retrospect. Hope the tense and sense of "being there" was still retained. All the best Adrian & Mary. Oh! by the way, your pics are pretty good also. A cut above the others we have seen. Cheers.

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