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We ran out of room in one album so when you look at the pics go to franz josef glacier 1, then go onto 2 to get them in order.
we arrived from boring greymouth and it was lovely here. our room was decked out in pictures of the glacier and slightly scary saws and axes! we booked our glacier hike and hoped for good weather as it had been raining since we got here. they have so much rain here they measure it in metres not mm like other towns.
the morning of our hike and it wasnt raining, yeay! we got kitted up and set of in the coach to the glaicer. we got off in the carpark and had a 3km walk to even get to it, from a distance it didnt look very big and it looked quite flat! oh no. when you got closer and actually onto the glacier you could see it was in waves of ice, and our guide picked a route through with his axe between the high sides of each waves. it was really amazing to see that much ice. some of it was so blue and we went through a small tunnel and squeezed through cracks in the ice. it was like caving all over again! but it was fantastic.
on the way back down the glacier we came to an ice pool. the guide asked if anyone fancied a dip , ha ha ! but who said yes....steve! he took off his top layers and kept on his boots and trousers and jumped on in, head under and everything! he said he went a bit dizzy it was so cold! he was followed by four other brave/crazy guys! he was a bit cold on the hour walk we had left back down the glacier but he was ok! we had lovely warm showers back at the hostel room to warm up again.
Off to Fox Galcier next, no more glacier hiking but they have the most picturesque lake in the world there apparently, lake matherson. we'll have to check it out.
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