Well yesterday we went to see the Franz Joseph and Fox glaciers on the South Island. We had planned to do a 5 hour hike to get a nice viewpoint of the Franz Joseph glacier but then the weather turned a little foul and it was really cloudy so we figured we would be just hiking up into the clouds and not have a nice view anyways, so we went for some smaller walks. It was pretty amazing to see the glaciers. You had to go on some sort of rip-off crazy expensive tour to climb on them so we just admired them from a distance. Dan (in true character) found a piece of ice floating down the river and carried it all the way back. In fact part of the way back this little girl asked if she could hold it while her mom took a picture...it was pretty cute. We were saying they will probably show her this picture later in her life and say "this wierd guy was carrying a chunk of ice back to the parking lot." Needless to say Dan was covered in cold, melted glacier by the time we got back, and left the piece of ice by the parking lot...later regretting it as he commented it would have been a good way to cool a few beers and make them "glacier" cold :>)
We have arrived in Queenstown today which is a beautiful city surrounded by mountains. We are off of a 4-day hike tomorrow...let's hope the weather holds!!
Love Hanna and Dan
Dan with his piece of glacier
On the road to Queenstown
Crazy bird in Abel Tasman national park
I love the pictures! Especially the one of Dan holding the ice, he looks sooooo happy. Looks like you are having such a great time! I went to to the Fox Glacier and loved it! It was funny because I ran into a guy on the glacier that I treeplanted with in BC, small world. Have a great time on the 4 day hike.
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That's really wierd! Daniel was just telling me that story about how you ran into tree planter when you were here when we were having supper tonight!
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