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The bluest lake I’ve ever seen
After a quick breakfast at Base, we drove to Lake Tekapo. It is the bluest lake I have ever seen. The colour comes from glaciers rubbing against rocks, creating rock flour which gives the blue hue. We checked in very early at the motel and while everyone else caught up with the US Open tennis, I wandered down to the Church of the Good Shepherd. …
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Well; what can I say
Drove from queenstown to Mt.cook. A five hour drive extended to six due to a horrible accident witnessed by us. About 2 hours into our drive the road was blocked by fire-engines and cop cars. There was apparently an accident; bikers rammed head onto a car. Within a few minutes a helicopter landed in middle of the road in front of us and there were …
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Up, Up, And Away...
... made a quick breakfast before heading to the Hermitage to make reservations to go out on Lake Tasman and see the Tasman glacier and icebergs. Just as we got to The Hermitage the sun broke through, opening the clouds up like a window. Suddenly, watching ...
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Hike To The Heavens
... the hike in, but on the hike back out we were just as picture happy. We snapped a sizable amount by the time we made it back to our campsite, where we had to quickly switch gears and head to the Hermitage Hotel for our boat ride out to the Tasman ...
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Fox & Franz Joseph Glaciers to Otira - Day 271
... the ice and snow on a small plateau at over 7000 feet. We had perfect views of Mount Cook and Mount Tasman, the biggest peaks in New Zealand. Completely awesome! Had 10 minutes to enjoy the views from the glacier before heading back to town after a flyby ...
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New Zealand - Mt.Cook
... Explorer' trip. After a short bus trip and a 20-minute walk we reached the lake (PIC) at the head of the Tasman Glacier - the largest glacier in New Zealand at around 75km in length. Two boats waited for us at the edge of the lake to take us up close ...
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The Scale of Things
... tried big bro!) I arrived in Frans Josef shortly after a pleasant lunch stop at Lake Ianthe and headed straight for the glacier. Like the Tasman Glacier we saw at Mount Cook earlier in the year, to say that the view of this baby is an optical ...
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Illusions and Inspiration
... it! While we were there we took one of the walks up to a viewpoint to see the Tasman Range and the Tasman Glacier. This was another optical illusion as the scale of this thing was simply magnificent. It looked to me like we could quickly climb down ...
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New Zealand, South Island...
... looking in a mirror. The rivers are just as beautiful in colour. We did a walk around Aoraki, and "Mt Cook" below the Tasman Glacier, hiking over the old part of the Glacier, which is all craggy rock with ice below. We could hear large cracking ...
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Mind warp in time and space continuum
... on their own but the Glacier lake further along the track had great views and some fairly big icebergs floating around it. The Tasman Glacier itself again was full of rocks, a result of it actually melting from the top down leaving the last 5 ...
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KIWIS, CRAMPONS AND CREVASSES
... lactic build up in my calves. The views from the top were awesome: one side dropped almost vertically all the way down to the Tasman Glacier, the other side gave perfect views of Mt Cook and Mt Tasman. We took a scenic route down, which ended up being ...
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New Zealand - Christchurch to Queenstown
... , nearby mountains (PIC). We had originally booked to go on a boat trip from Mt.Cook that would take us out to the Tasman glacier, unfortunately it took us over an hour to get out of the centre of Christchurch (damn traffic lights!) and as a result ...
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