Well here we are...although what we saw today didn't look an awful lot like the picture here. I got some cracking shots so will put those online (along with others already on there if you'd given up checking!) as soon as we can. Anyway I think there is a little more to mention about Wanaka before we get too ahead of ourselves and miss any details. On our last day it finally stopped raining which we were very grateful for. Apparently the weather around the southern lakes had actually gotten pretty bad, a few roads closed after heavy snowfall so we were lucky. We had a lovely walk along Waterfall Creek which runs along Lake Wanaka, we went really early and saw about two people so it was perfect. We did disturb a big group of sheep as we got to the end though, they looked pretty unimpressed! Since the weather was good we were able to spend the afternoon horse trekking in the Cardrona Valley, about 25mins from Wanaka along a very high stretch of road. Cardrona is an old gold mining town which now has a population of 50 people. We were given our very own Spanish Apaloosa for two whole hours, mine was called Savannah and Hol's was Frosty (she ate a lot all the way round!). Although the horses were obviously very experienced it was pretty challenging for Hol and I as we left the stables straight away and rode up out of the valley which was pretty steep. We walked through streams, up along the top of the valley, cantered through fields (without falling off!) and then back down into the valley again. It was soooo cool, we both loved it, despite a little soreness the following day. If you could sleep and eat inside a horse that would be the way to see the country rather than in a camper van! The day after that we set off for Fox Glacier (a great name for a film star don't you think? 'Fox Glacier is James Bond'?) which is pretty remote, we've found the internet in a hotel, no mobile network and one shop. It's lovely though, and the weather is even better which apparently is pretty rare as it's smack bang in the middle of rainforest and they average 7 metres (yes metres) of rain a year. This morning we took a guided tour for over four hours with Dennis...ahh Dennis...what a guy he was...(tatoos, pierced tongue, done loads of travelling and so so so fit!) I am afraid we were both guilty of a little distraction early on but we did appreciate the rainforest scenery too. We got about an hour on the ice which was incredible. The glacier kind of looks like a river that has whooshed down the valley really quickly and then frozen all of a sudden. It's about 13km long and the part that we walked on was about 150metres deep. We had crampons strapped on to our shoes so we had to stamp really hard to pin them in and not fall over. Dennis told us to keep our legs good and wide like John Wayne - luckily our sore rumps were forcing us to do that already! This afternoon we took a walk along Lake Matheson which isn't far at all from Fox Glacier. It has a boardwalk bit called Reflection Island and you can see Mt Cook and Mt Tasman there, they both reflect into the Lake so you can barely tell where the lake stops and the land begins, it is so beautiful. As you can probably tell we're both pretty taken with Fox Glacier, but we're moving on to Franz Josef tomorrow but we think that we'll probably give the Glacier walk a miss there. It's more expensive and much steeper so you don't get any views of the valley we're told, so we'll go and see it for free instead! Must go, time running out on pc! Missing you all xxxxxxxxxxxxx