franz jospeh glacier day we arrived at the check in and collected all our gear and donned it. after a quick bus ride we arrived at the bottom of the glacier. we walked for approx 2km til we actually hit any ice. eventually we climbed the first ice steps on the glacier which was quite daunting at first as they were steep but our guide Lucas (one of the girls called him Sky Lukewaker ?!? lol)put us at ease. as we were hitting blue ice we had to put on our tall...

we woke up with a few sore heads and set off in the rain to franz joseph. we stopped at this little museam which was about the deer farming and culling which was run by a funny old man called pete who himself used to jump out of a helicopter onto the back of deer to catch them!!?? crazy fool. it was very interesting and you could even eat a possum pie but we declined, just tea thanks... we fed a dead mouse to an eel and someone tried to feed a wild pig which was ...