Another early start as we have pre-booked helicopter flights, again with bookme.com and are due to fly from Fox at 9.00. A totally different day today, no rain and the sun Is shining - big bonus! So back over the mountain to Fox via numerous hairpin bends and arrived at Mountain Helicopters at 08.45 to find that the other couple booked on our flight had not turned up and they would not fly unless they had a minimum of 3 passengers. They had a flight at 12.30 whe...

On the road by 08.15 and heading towards the West coast and Glacier Country. Initially looking a bit grey but as we got to the end of Lake Wanaka we started to climb into the rainforest on the edge of Mount Aspiring National Park and in true rain forest style it started to rain. The route followed the River Haast which was in full flow due to the rainfall and waterfalls were cascading into the river from the adjacent mountains. The cloud level was very low and mo...