The Westhaven Fox Glacier
Statehighway 6, Fox Glacier, Westland Fox Glacier, Westland National Park, South Island, New Zealand
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Traversing to the Tasman Sea
It is Tuesday here and actually Paul's birthday back home. We get on the computer and skype and few folks back home. It is good to hear their voices. After breakfast we head out to start our trek up the West coast of the South Island and are targeting Haast as our destination. Haast is 2 ½ hours from Queenstown. We stop several times along the way …
Fox Glacier Stint
It is difficult to find new adjectives to describe New Zealand and we have only been on the South Island for 5 minutes and are probably boring you all with the same old words to describe the scenery. Therefore, here are 3 words which describe the landscape so far and will inevitably apply to the rest of the island and should be applied to the …
Fox Glacier - heli ride and hike
Fox Glacier
It absolutely poured down on the way to Fox Glacier, which is not surprising as it is on the West coast of the island, which is very sub tropical. We certainly hadn't seen rain like it since leaving England and it was a complete contrast to the parched Canterbury plains near Christchurch on the East, where they are using …
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Soaked on the Glacier
... the glacier and all in the intense rain. After 50 min. we reach the glacier terminus zone. I am already totally wet, and have the glacier river in my boots. The path is like a small river and the water is coming from all sides. I cannot even take photos as it is definitely too wet. When we have to put on the crampons I also put on another layer and my gloves. They are totally soaked within minutes. I can squeeze the water out of all my clothes, also my Gore-Tex jacket. As ...
Nurse Meg instead of Glacier Franz Josef
... eye with a big torch and puts several liquids in the eye. Finally she does not find any foreign particles but she states a ‘blood shock’ , she keeps on putting further drops and fluids into my eye and shuts it with a white pad and tape. I was looking like a pirate, had to keep the eye like this for four hours and got further eye drops for treatment and the advice to visit another clinic in Wanaka or the hospital in Queenstown in case the eye is ...



