Sheep and Ice
Thought I'd do an update since I'm on to check the F1 results...
Had a great day hiking around on Franz Josef glacier. Although there was heavy rain when we arrived, and more forecast for the day of our hike, the blue skies shone through just before we started, and held off for the rest of the day.
"You won't get better conditions than that," the guide Tom said at the end.
It was a physical day but good fun. The most interesting moment would have been when we were walking through a narrow valley of ice about 10 metres high on each side, and there was the noise of an explosion in the wall right next to us, from somewhere inside the glacier. It sounded like a snowball hitting glass but a bit louder. We turned to look at the bloke behind, and he looked at us as if to say, 'nothing to do with me mate'. Then we all sped up.
We cruised over to Hanmer Springs, covering 300 miles without really noticing (until the fuel light came on), and now we're in Kaikoura which is a sort of nature sanctuary. As if to prove itself, we were looking for the town and ended up in a car park on a peninsula. After a couple of minutes we realised there were a load of massive fur seals lying around on the grass and rocks around us!
Tomorrow we're booked onto a whale watching boat cruise since we managed to completely miss them on both coasts of Oz.
Oh, and the entire country is in shock after the rugby results. It's mentioned continuously, although they're taking it better than the Aussies did after their exit in the footy world cup last year.
Speaking of rugby, we kind of wish we'd been in Oz this weekend...
Arthurs Pass, just a normal road in NZ:
This morning we stumbled across some seals lazing about:
Ice:
Had a great day hiking around on Franz Josef glacier. Although there was heavy rain when we arrived, and more forecast for the day of our hike, the blue skies shone through just before we started, and held off for the rest of the day.
"You won't get better conditions than that," the guide Tom said at the end.
It was a physical day but good fun. The most interesting moment would have been when we were walking through a narrow valley of ice about 10 metres high on each side, and there was the noise of an explosion in the wall right next to us, from somewhere inside the glacier. It sounded like a snowball hitting glass but a bit louder. We turned to look at the bloke behind, and he looked at us as if to say, 'nothing to do with me mate'. Then we all sped up.
We cruised over to Hanmer Springs, covering 300 miles without really noticing (until the fuel light came on), and now we're in Kaikoura which is a sort of nature sanctuary. As if to prove itself, we were looking for the town and ended up in a car park on a peninsula. After a couple of minutes we realised there were a load of massive fur seals lying around on the grass and rocks around us!
Tomorrow we're booked onto a whale watching boat cruise since we managed to completely miss them on both coasts of Oz.
Oh, and the entire country is in shock after the rugby results. It's mentioned continuously, although they're taking it better than the Aussies did after their exit in the footy world cup last year.
Speaking of rugby, we kind of wish we'd been in Oz this weekend...
Arthurs Pass, just a normal road in NZ:
This morning we stumbled across some seals lazing about:
Ice:
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