The pics below show some of the highlights over the past 5 days or so. First one is of the majestic Frans Josef glacier. On this particular day we ventured out in good weather only for nasty clouds and rain to come. It was our rest day so naturally we decided to tackle a 6 hour walk. Baz lasted about 2 hours before he quite rightly decided that there was little point going on with the rain blocking out the scenery and went back to the hostel (complete with sauna) we were staying in. Meanwhile I decided I wanted to climb to the top of the hill (over 1,000m). For the first half of the climb I was tramping through, quite literally, rainforest as shown in pic 2.
The 3rd pic shows the west coast at Knight's Point on the day I predicted apocalyptic rain and clouds but as can be seen, it was all good! This was the day I was suffering up the climbs but the view at the top of this one was well worth the effort.
No.4 shows a nice tree line at Haast - there really wasn't much else of any scenic value - that is until we headed up the Haast Valley in great conditions yesterday - next two pics.
Finally, our campsite last night on lake Wanaka - awe-inspiring.
-AC
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Them pics are wicked! You can clearly see where the ablation zone is in that first pic of the glacier.(Mr Kelly taught me well, dont know how i only managed an N at A-Level)
Very good Mr. Grose. It all came flooding back to me when I read the info sign!
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