Our ice walk doesn't start until 1.30pm so spent the morning at Lake Matheson. It took about an hour and half to do the circuit of the lake through lovely rain forest and reflective views over the lake to the snow capped mountains of Mt Tasman and Mt Cook.
We were really lucky with the weather as it held out and we had a fine afternoon for our walk on the ice. Our guide Tim led us up the side of the glacier and then we strapped on our crampons and walked up some ice steps on right onto the top of the glacier and blue/green ice.