Glaciers ..... WOW!!

After breakfast we were back on the road again and onwards towards Franz Josef for a day of Glaciers. A quick photo stop at Lake Ianthe and then back on the 6.

After much winding and up’s and down’s we arrived at Franz Josef. We had a look around the sovenier shops and then drove to the Glacier. We crossed the narrow bridge and decided that the gorgeous scenery was an awesome place to have lunch .... so we did!!

We had out lunch and then drove the short distance to the Glacier Car Park. We had just pulled up and the heavens opened!! Really heavy rain, so we stayed in the Camper where it was dry. There were a load of walkers outside waiting for the bus to pick them up and they got soaked!!

It passed within 5 minutes, so we started our walk down to the Glacier. Luckily it wasn’t as wet as it was last time we were here so there was no streams to wade across (No wet feet this time Mum H).

We made it there in no time and we stood where we’d stood previously at the lookout. We watched the hikers going up the Glacier, climbing to the top and we even saw some coming down. It's so big and icey .... to state the obvious !! It;s just so much to take in. On our way back it started to rain heavy again so we took shelter under a rock.

We stood and watch the river for a while, caused from the Glacier and the surrounding mountain range. We could hear a loud noise and found out it was melted Glacier chunks rolling down the river, they were huge bouncing down. It sounded like thunder! Massive boulders of ice.

We walked back the way we came and back to the camper to dry out, before our next stop Fox’s Glacier.

A 40 minutes drive later and we arrived at Fox’s Glacier Car Park. Unfortunately that was as far as we could go! The track to the Glacier was closed due to rock falls and recent heavy rain ...... nevermind. We still got to see a little bit of it and had to wait ages for a quick photo as everyone else was doing the same.

We weren’t far from the campsite so we headed there for the night. We were surrounded by huge moutains and it got really dark, really quickly. The campsite was really nice, really modern. We just chilled at the Camper having soup for tea (for a change!) and spent the evening playing Dominos and Uno under the mountains ..... perfect!!