Glacier Country

After hiking for two days and because the weather was pretty bad with rainfalls all day we decided not to go on a bigger hike at Fox Glacier. The trip to the viewpoint was about an hour but you couldn't see too much of the glacier, just the tip.
The same was for Franz Josef Glacier (named after the Austrian-Hungarian emperor) but there you could see a bit more. Also the steel blue inner ice. Unfortunately both of them are dying at an immense fast pace and will be gone by 2035... The extent they had just 100 years ago compared to now is incredible and looking at this rest is sad.

In Franz Josef village we got a spot in a well-equipped and cheap motor home park. Afterwards we bought a 2l box of ice cream as this was cheaper than two ice creams :D And because ice cream! In the evening we were visited by possums which weren't shy at all and crawled around the van searching for food.

We considered doing a longer day hike at Franz Josef but due to heavy rainfalls the track was impassable, so we also just sticked to the viewpoint.Read more