We have arrived on the West Coast, and on New Year's Day we took a peek at the Fox Glacier. Against all predictions the sky was clear and so we we left the hotel at 8 AM (glad we had not partied till midnight the night before). We walked to the bottom of the left side of the glacier, then went to the other side (there is a river running out of the ice) where we got our best view after a pretty steep trek. (See above- you can barely make out Mt Cook in the background.) We had to ford a couple streams to get to this outlook point: the worse was 5 minutes before we reached the view at the end of the hour hike. It was touch and go whether we actually crossed, but we did it - an adventure!
On the way we got a peek at the full extent of this glacier. It is unusual in that it flows below tree line! In this one you cannot see Mt Cook because of the clouds. Hard to show the full scale in a photo.
Happy New Year to you all - it's old hat to us, been 2010 here for 17 hours. . . .We were just watching the live fireworks in Paris. :-D
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