Glacier Country!

We headed EVEN FURTHER south on the West Coast and entered Glacier Country - home to a number of New Zealand's glaciers - most famous of which are Franz Josef Glacier and Fox Glacier. Both myself and Su weren't in the mood for any hiking (thanks to numerous sand fly bites to the ankles - Feckers!) so most of our photos are from a distance. You'll get the idea anyway - massive ice flows coming down mountains:

The photo above is of Franz Josef glacier. The next one is also a photo of Franz Josef glacier but taken from a place called Peter's Pool:

Despite the name, I didn't have any urge to swim in (no doubt) freezing Peter's Pool.

Then we went to Fox Glacier! No sign of any polar bear sitting on this Fox Glacier (sorry):

You get a sense of size of the glaciers from this photo - the little dots on the bottom right hand corner are people. Normal sized people at that - not little people!

Su reckoned that this glacier could do with a cleaning as it wasn't as white as Franz Josef.

Then we drove further south again and just as we thought we were leaving Glacier Country we rounded a bend and saw this:

This is Mount Hooker (hey, I didn't make up the name) and it also has a glacier on top. Hooker Glacier to be exact!

So that's it for the day - we're all glaciered out now and ready for our next stop: Queenstown! Backpacker central! We're looking forward to chilling out and maybe hitting the town for a night or two. Look out!!