The next morning we prepared to leave and luckily for us the weather looked like it was about to turn horrible again so best to get out before we became trapped again. The bus left on time in the morning and our first stop was Bushman Petes Cafe. Not my favourite place to stop as he also known as Possum Pete as he kills possums. The evidence was spread around the cafe with fur on all the seats and dead possums and other animals mounted on the walls. There was al...

Today we had a well deserved lie in after yesterday's exertions up the glacier. After lunch we then wandered down to the spa pools as this came free as part of our glacier hike. The spa pools consisted of three pools of glacier water heated to different temperatures between 36 - 40 degrees. We didn't know they were different and stupidly ended up in the hottest one first meaning the remaining two just felt cold. The 40 degree pool was lovely on a cold day howeve...

We woke the next morning to blue skies so rang ahead for the glacier hike - so far so good! They asked that we check in at 9 so we had breakfast and headed down. At 9.30 we were being kitted out with boots, crampons, waterproofs and a bag to take up - yay we were going! Once the group was ready we walked to the helicopter field where luckily we were given the front row seats which meant the best view! We landed on the glacier and had just over 2 hours of expl...

We woke early for breakfast and the bus to Franz Josef. The walk to the bus was not so much fun as it was torrential rain and down hill with suitcases! Once down the very steep hill the journey to the bus became more interesting as the pavements were flooded to above my hiking boots. This left us no option but to use the road but in the darkness of the early morning this was not exactly a safe option. Fortunately we made it to the bus stop where we waited for t...