Friday 18th May 2007Journal brought to you by Sophie, who is very cold.This morning we had to get up fairly early as we were going on a full day hike on the Franz Josef glacier. We spent the first two hours of the day getting kitted up for the walk. I was wearing about 50 billion layers as I didn't want to freeze. We were given fetching mittens, huge boots that we had to attach ice spikes to as soon as we got on the glacier, some big woollen socks, a warm fle...

Thursday 17th May Journal entry brought to you by Tami (just glad to be alive) Today was a fantastic, albeit slightly traumatising day. We left Mahinapua early in the morning and drove to the Pukekura Bushman centre for breakfast. There was a small museum there, so Sophie, Ricky and I decided to check it out. It was all going fine, until I decided to look for the ginormous wild boar that lived there. There was a large platform outside, and a sign that said 'Onl...