A Crazy Driver Ahead and Then up and Over the Southern Alps Divide - Haast Pass
April 28th 2021 Again the weather gods have shone down on us as we pack up and prepare to head away from Fox Glacier for places further south.
We hadn’t used a lot of petrol after the last fill in Hokitika so the Fox Glacier price for petrol at NPD at $2.45 per litre didn’t bite into the credit card too much. And with the petrol station being privately owned there were no Gold Card discount.
As with most da
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