17th-18th May We got to Fox Glacier early in the morning and had breakfast in the van before heading to the glacier car park. The track to the glacier terminal face was fully open today and the weather was a little cloudy but not too bad. The track had to be changed due to all the bad weather they have had lately and they had to lay big rocks in place over numerous streams to use them as stepping stones. You could see quite a lot of the glacier from the terminal...

22nd- 24th April On the way to Greymouth we stopped off in Punakaiki to see the pancake rocks and blowholes. We got there just before high tide so we got to see them as the tide was getting bigger and the waves more ferocious. They were an interesting sight with the rocks shaped and layered in that way from erosion over 300 million years. We saw massive sprays of water come up through the blowholes and make booming sounds! The whole west coast (Wild West) is ver...