Travel Day

We were sorry to say good-bye to Queenstown, but packed up and headed for the West Coast first thing on Monday morning for the next planned stop on the quick tour. The views along the lakes and mountains are breathtaking and, again, we were struck by how few people there are anywhere.

View of Mike in the "unspoiled" natural world

The views got harder to capture on camera as the rains started to fall. We were undeterred while driving through the Haast Pass (we purchased a map for $2 and were determined to use it) and stopped at all the marked waterfalls and sent the kids into the rain for a view.

I thought the camera protecting umbrella deserved a mention.

By the time we arrived in the town of Fox Glacier it was near dinner time and we got the bad news that the weather looked bad, real bad, for our hopes to walk on the glaciers. With that disappointing forecast in mind, we walked as close as you could get to the Fox Glacier on the sanctioned path. Our attire of shorts and sandals was met with a few confused gazes by the slicker/hat/boot-clad tour groups.