Glaciers

From Queenstown we headed up to Wanaka and then to Fox and Franz Josef Glaciers.
Coming up through Cardrona we encountered the fresh snow from the night before (and a few flakes still coming down).
A stop for a quick snow ball fight was on, and a continuing highlight for the kids was the weird snowman I made and perched on the bonnet of the car. It lasted until Wanaka (about 40km) when to much sorrow the last of it was returned to the elements.

Wanaka for morning tea had the kids asking for fluffy's. Fluffy's is the NZ equivalent of a babychinno.

At Fox we walked up to the viewing point for the Glacier with the kids finally able to see what a glacier is after having only heard about them and seeing the results of them over the previous couple of days (around Fiordland).

We stayed the night in Franz Josef and next morning headed up Franz Josef Glacier. Franz Josef Glacier is a bigger glacier than Fox Glacier, and the walk to it is a little further (90min round trip, compared to 60min), but well worth it to see the size and to get a feel for the power of them.

This photo is looking back down the riverbed from Franz Josef Glacier.

From Franz Josef we headed back to home base in Nelson.