Lots of water everywhere from the rain and the melt from the glaciers.
I think I see a glacier!
This is what it should look like on a nice day.
An escarpment.
A glacial toe through the clouds.
Fox Glacier
The Fox Glacier trail was closed when we arrived on account of overnight washouts due to a big surge of water being released from the glacier.
This is one big glacier!
The car park was built by pushing some rock and gravel up to form an island in the outflow from the glacier.
The small orange dot is a worker trying to reestablish the trail.
This little parrot is a menace to cars. He eats rubber gaskets.
The band on his foot indicates that he is well known to the New Zealand authorities.
Franz Joseph Glaicer
The Franz Joseph Glacier in the distance.
This glacier is HUGE!
Heading up the path to the glacier’s toe.
Water pouring off the high mountains.
A guy who sets out the trail everyday. Every time the water changes course, they have to rebuild the trial. Not too bad of a job.
That’s a big glacier.
Looking down toward the sea.
Kristen down toward the glacier for scale. We were still a few thousand feet away from the ice.
Yes, it’s dangerous here.
That didn’t stop us from getting right up to the rope.
We were both pretty soaked by the end of our hike.