The weather is pants, drizzle rain and cold. Research tells us we have a small window of clear weather 10am - 11am. Noted, so we are parked and start our walk to the glacier at 9:30am , it is a 1hour 30minutes round trip. En route the drizzle continues but as we reach the face ( well 250 metres away from it) the cloud lifts and we observe the wonder in front of us, grab some photos and wander back. By the time we reach the van we are dry as the weather stayed fair but now the down pours begin. We decide to check into the Fox Glacier Top 10 site for a few days to have heat and await a time to walk to the other glacial face. We pull into the town of Fox Glacier for supplies to 'Baton down the hatches' for a day or 2. It's a small town with a little convenience store and it is all about the helicopter rides. One company is offering us a 10 minute scenic flight for $99 as there may be a window at 1pm -1:30pm however we had made our own risk assessment and decide not to. It's miserable here on the ground we both agree that it's one adventure that the timing is just not right for. We head back to check in and it's pizza and DVD night....