There are lots of firsts in life (i.e. glaciers, helicopter rides, and glowworms). This week we were lucky enough to experience all of these. Franz Josef Glacier was our first stop in glacier country. We did a day hike up to the base of the glacier but could not get closer due to recent rock fall and landslide damage (causing unstable grounds). The Department of Conservation has a ton of signs posted about the increased risk of death outside of the barriers - you can see an example of one in our picture below (obviously this has been an issue).
Franz Josef was pretty sweet, but we were even more pumped to visit Fox Glacier - stop #2 in glacier country. We had already scheduled a heli-hike a couple of days in advance (thank the good Lord that the weather decided to cooperate this time). Needless to say this BAAAAA!!*
*BA: BA is the abbreviation for badass....something I always say and now I've got Jared saying it. It became even funnier when we got to NZ, because of all the sheep. You see when you pronounce BA, it is also the sound sheep make. So now there are all of these terrible jokes between us regarding sheep and BAAAAs.
Yesterday afternoon we got came into a town called Wanaka. I'm pretty sure Jerbear and I would move here in a heartbeat if we could afford it. Today we took a hike to the top of Mount Iron, which has a panoramic view of Wanaka from it's peak. On one side of the mountain, it was raining/snowing and on the other side, it was completely sunny and blue skies (see pics below).
Now that we are getting further down south, it is absolutely freezing. The weather forecasts a high of 5 degrees Celcius tomorrow and a low of -6 degrees Celcius tomorrow night (that's 21 degrees Fahrenheit!!!). All of that aside, we are super pumped because our friend, Maddie, is coming to meet us in Queenstown tomorrow and staying for the week. Big Bertha is not going to know what to do with herself....
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