Skydiving New Zealand Fox Glacier

... hot chocolate on tap so obviously we took full advantage and had about 4 cups each.  We decided to head down to Fox Glacier township to a DOC site called Gillespie’s Beach that was totally free and Andrew cooked outside in the rain while I ...

... to even wiggle. We climbed up to 12,000 feet over 20 minutes or so, and the views on the way up were breathtaking. Fox Glacier, Mt. Cook, the Southern Alps, the rain forest, the lakes, and the coastline were all stunning, and seeing them from that ...

WE FINALLY DID IT!  ITS CONFIRMED, WE ARE NUTS!  So in the afternoon, we headed to Fox Glacier for our Sky Diving adventure!  We decided to do it without thinking about it so we didn’t have time to be nervous.  However, the ...

... started a little bit north of Greymouth to see the Pancake Rocks on the coast. Then it was down south again to Wananke, and then onto Fox Glacier. Right, now I'm afraid that I have to admit I was a bit lazy here..the plan was to do a trek on the ice but ...

... you can also experience the Wanaka Beerworks with tours and tasting daily. You can also book air flights and skydiving. Across the road is something very new and a real experience with Wayne Palmer's "Have a Shot". He provides a golf driving range, ...

... Glacier on the other which looks so impressive from the air. Then we skirt past Mount Tasman and Mount Cook, the tallest mountain in New Zealand, until we reach the height of 12,000ft. The flight has taken 20 minutes and all the way up the guys have ...

... over the Southern Alps, through beautiful mountain landscapes, turning within a few dozen kilometers into coastal landscapes. We stopped at Fox Glacier, checked the walks we could do. There were guided glacier hikes, walking on ice and snow, and they ...

... ! It was a thirty minute drive to the base where we were given the low down and safety instructions.  Fox Glacier is named after Sir William Fox, New Zealand’s prime minister who named it after himself in 1872.  Today we were going to be ...

Sky diving was brilliant - absolutely amazing :) Uploading the photos is bringing back all the memories. I'm so happy we went to fox glacier because looking at the scenery on the way down just takes away all the fear - it's like being a kid and opening ...

... zde naskytne nejkrasnejsi pohled na jizni Alpy a Mt. Cook, ktery se odrazi od hladiny jezera. Druhy den jsme vyrazili k ledovci Fox Glacier, ktery je dlouhy 13km a je tudiz nejvetsim ledovcem na Novem Zelandu. Zasli jsme pouze k celu ledovce, jelikoz ...