Had a great hike this morning on the glacier, it was really amazing! It also doesn't look quite real when you see it as it is just a huge hunk of ice sitting in amongst a lot of trees and rainforest and a mountain. It looks almost superimposed or something like that, or something out of a film set! Met a girl called Penny who was on the same bus as I was on the journey back from Abel Tasman National Park. She had been in Franz Josef the day before and did a h...

Didn't do much at all in Greymouth this morning, apart from upload photos and update my blog (as you may have seen!) Oh well, it had to be done I guess and I had also paid for wireless access which I could only use at Noah's Ark so I wanted to make sure that I used it up!! Got to Fox Glacier without any hassle but met some people who had been on the Tranz Alpine train from Greymouth to Christchurch (and you can go the other way) and I really wish that I'd gone ...