Okay here they come .....
Day one - post tent home - need rest if day to recover from the fact that we could have bought a new tent for what that cost - and despite what Martyn says it was all down to the tent and sleeping mats and nothing whatsoever to do with my bucket of cookies!
After that drove up to glacier land stopping at various points along the way for short, sandfly ridden, photos. As usual stunning scenery. Last NZ ice cream in Haast and then on to Fox glacier.
Day two - hike Fox Glacier - obviously not a local but have now picked up enough of the lingo to get by.......hike was sweet as and truly awesome! See picky for small sample of what we spent 5 hrs gazing at (well actually we have better views but the staircase to get up to the Glacier was the best one on the blog camera!
Slight delay on dinner as we discovered that the fridge Martyn had proudly put last nights leftover mince in was actually a freezer - quite appropriate given we'd spent the day on the glacier!
Day three - drive from Fox glacier to Arthurs pass - in the rain - lots of foggy mysterious views but still stunning. NZ must be so sorry to see us go that it was crying! Stopped for a picky at the top of Arthurs pass only to lose half an hour watching three Kea amuse themselves with various other tourists cars - wasn't quite so funny when the Kea also decide we needed to stay in NZ so started trying to eat Sherberts windscreen wipers! Wasnt quite sure how we would explain that to rental company!
Day four - rain stopped and we headed back to Christchurch having been woken by more Kea scrabbling on the corrugated iron roof of our chalet :)
Currently sat in airport waiting to go through to departures......please dont make me go.........
Ah well, from the land of the long White cloud to the land of kangaroos and wallabies we go. See you in Sydney!!!
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