Franz Josef Glacier

Trip Start Mar 09, 2007
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Friday, July 13, 2007

Stayed at another Top ten in a beautiful apartment that looked out towards the glacier, really nice apart from the annoyance of a heater that only stayed on for 15 minutes and a walk of about a mile and a half into town. Went on a helicopter tour of the Glacier which was like visiting another world, a world of Ice! Crawled through ice tunnels and treked through gullies in our crampons, then had the most thrilling and stomach churning ride in a helicopter as our drunk pilot tried to scare Suzy! An amazing experience marred only by Ted's loss of his new trendy rip curl jacket, which we realised must have been lost in one of the ice caves we went through, never to be seen again, oh well, he said it was worth it! Watched the All Blacks match against SA in Speights that evening, warming in front of the fire and eating a well deserved feast before our trek back along the dark, winding road for a VERY early bus journey the next day, which we overslept for! Had a Long journey on the bus down to Queenstown.
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