Today we go from remote mountains to a tourist town - but still in the mountains
 105.85 Kb View from near the Glacier View Motel. Franz Josef Glacier is the white bit directly beneath the clouds. |
 134.58 Kb Fox Glacier terminal face. Note the apparent small size of the "cave" and note the actual size of it as we get close. |
 73.58 Kb Waterfall near Fox Glacier |
 148.23 Kb Fox Glacier. |
 123.05 Kb Fox Glacier from up close. Notice that the 'tiny' cave is much bigger than it looked. |
 137.14 Kb John at Fox Glacier. He's holding a chunk of glacial ice in his hand. |
 141.74 Kb Jodi at Fox Glacier |
 89.51 Kb As glaciers develop crevasses and then melt, the crevasses get bigger and open up, which forms spiky ice between them. |
 146.09 Kb Fox Glacier. |
 127.19 Kb At Fox Glacier, looking down the valley. In the mid-1800s, the glacier reached well down this valley, and there are photos of people standing on the glacier - a little over halfway up this rock face. |
 106.23 Kb A clearer look at the melting ice at the top of the glacier's terminal face. |
 163.37 Kb Rocks off of Knights Point. Look at how blue and clear the water is! |
 147.71 Kb Looking south from Knight's Point. Seals hang out on the rocks below, but we didn't see any today. Still impressed with the clearness and blueness of the water, though. |
 124.04 Kb Another river bottom and more mountains. Look at the sky! New Zealand's South Island is supposed to have some of the cleanest, purest air in the world. |
 112.29 Kb Mountains, possibly along the Haast River. |
 68.85 Kb A glimpse of some higher mountains, probably the Mount Aspiring range. |
 98.87 Kb Looking off a bridge to a rapids/waterfall. It's hard to see, but the river has the clear, blue color of glacial runoff (as opposed to the chalky glacial runoff we saw at Franz Josef and Fox glaciers) |
 97.63 Kb Waterfall |
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