Booking our Glacier hike for 11.40am meant a bit of a lie in for us today and we even had time to go to the bakery for breakfast! Success. We went to the Glacier Guide office to get checked in and fill out the forms, only to find in the small print that it said they were not liable if we ended up getting stuck on the glacier for the night. Good to know. So with that bit of comforting information, we got fully suited and booted and then went to get a helic...

The morning was one of regrets and hangovers. With some pancakes and bacon from the hostel to wash down the remnants of alcohol from the night before. Deciding we all looked a bit too fragile today, our driver didn't make us do the 1 hour walk in Okarito and instead got us to Franz Josef a bit earlier so that we could check in at the Glacier Guide office for our activities tomorrow. We are all a bit worried as the weather today was awful so we aren't sure if...