Bushwalk Australia

Just a few photos from our recent trip to the south island of New Zealand. Not really any walking but the scenery was still magic. Sorry to the dial up users

Helicopter flight up to a small glacier. I think it was called Shackleton Glacier. It was one of the best thing I have ever done















Doubtful Sound









Mt Cook







Sunrise in Queenstown



Lake Te Anau



Road near Omarama



Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers. The walk on Franz Josef Glacier was magic. Some of the ice formations were so amazing

Some great shots there.

Glacier walks are some of the best things to do. We did a half day walk on the Fox Glacier a couple of years ago and by the end we wished we had signed up for the full day. Franz Joseph is next

I am ashamed to say that i checked the 'where am i?' game thread for updates (or for my latest fix ) before looking at this.
beautiful shots though, very inspiring!!

They sure know how to grow mountains over there!

Thanks

Great photos
My wife would rather we went to NZ than Tas for a holiday.
I suspect it will take some time to plan.
Do they provide any kit for the glacier walking?

eggs

When we went to Fox Glacier they supplied leather boots (you could take your own, they won't let you use sneakers though) along with some basic instep crampons, raincoat and a nice solid wooden staff. I'd guess that it'd be similar up at Franz Joseph.

Yeah they provided us with "waterproof" jackets and trousers, boost, crampons and woolen socks as well as a small ice pick. It was the only was of bad weather we got whilst we were over there and got saturated so the camera had to stay in the bag for the majority of the time which was a bit disappointing.

Son of a Beach wrote:They sure know how to grow mountains over there!

And they know how to manage tourism too.

photohiker wrote:When we went to Fox Glacier they supplied leather boots (you could take your own, they won't let you use sneakers though) along with some basic instep crampons, raincoat and a nice solid wooden staff. I'd guess that it'd be similar up at Franz Joseph.

Can you imaging turning up at say Ben Lomond or Cradle Mountain, and someone giving you a pair of walking boot and a walking stick and a rain coat?

We did the Fox Glacier heli-hike when we went to NZ a couple of years ago, it's one of the best things i've done, though we were only provided with boots and cramp-ons, but it was a beautiful sunny day.

Thankyou so much for these photos.

It all reminds me of our trip to NZ in 2006. The scenery is absolutely stunning isn't it?

I remember recently telling someone about how unbelievably blue the rivers look, whoever that was - see, that's what I was talking about!

L8r.