Fox glacier was absolutely beautiful. That is the town anyway. Very quaint and priety with some nice guest houses.
the cold had got worse at this point but i was pleased for a night stay in the warmth. The scenic flight and landing on the glacier was cancelled because of the rain. When I say rain I mean rain there were sheets of it.
So I decided to head for franz joseph to see if I would be in luck with the weather there.
It was a quick drive so by the time I got there the visitor centre was shut for lunch. Stopped in this cafe for some lunch a kiwi breakfast in fact as due to the weather a fry up sounded good.
A californian guy started talking to me and it turns out was heading in the same direction. We walked to the visitor centre to ask about the weather but I had already asked about it at the flight centre and it looked like it would be like that for a few days although the pilot was hoping it would clear for tomorrow morning but wasn't convinced. So the californian gentleman and myself did teh visitor centre and the exhibion there. Next thing the heavens opened and I did my first hitchike. I asked an english couple if they could give us a lift to the carpark as it was really raining hard and we had walked from there. They were nice enough and dropped us off.
Posted by alexd at August 18, 2004 06:52 AM