After Punakiki we made our way to Franz Joseph, home of the Franz
Joseph Glacier. On the way there, it was raining. When we arrived, still
raining, that night, raining even harder. The rain took out the power for a little
while, and tripped the fire alarm FOUR times during the night. The next day it was still
raining, so no glacier tour. I still had hope for the next morning but during
the day I received a free haircut and chopped off about 5 inches of my hair.
What can I say? I got bored... But, that afternoon I got to see Kiwi birds!
They were in a breading centre, but it was still really cool.
They are nocturnal animals so you could not take pictures and you had to let
your eyes adjust to see them. They have to be the most
spastic birds I have ever seen! They run in circles and throw themselves onto
the ground and into their water. All I could do was laugh and think, I can see
why they are endangered. Harsh, but the truth.
The next day the weather was still bad, and so went my last chance to heli up to the glacier. However, our driver had bigger issues, trying to figure out how we were getting back
to Queenstown. The storm caused a massive landslide in Hass Pass, the only road between Franz Joseph and Queenstown. It wasn’t going to be open
for another 3 or 4 days. So we had to go the LONG way around which, over the
next two days took roughly about 13 hours. Got some good photos though!
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