Franz Josef Glacier hike

Today was our first rainy day but it didn't damper our hike up to see Franz Josef Glacier which took 1 and half hours to do. Great track and so beautiful and tropical Forrest and the Glacier is impressive but nothing will compare with flying up to the Fox Glacier and trekking around on it - amazing!!

Fox Glacier

Well today was the big day for our tour of the Fox Glacier (cost us $850 so had big expectations) so we headed off from our lovely accomodation Franz Josef Oasis and headed back to Fox Glacier which has the windiest roads up and through the mountains. On our way there they were cleaning up an accident and a car had crashed and gone down the hill so they were pulling that out and held us up for about 10 mins but we had left it with plenty of time. We got booked in then up on to the helicopter for about 5 minute journey onto the glacier. Wow,wow,wow amazing !!! We then went on a tour of the glacier with a guide and saw all the different things of the glacier and the waterfalls.

Queenstown to Franz Josef

Our last day in Queenstown we went for a huge walk and the drove around where e Hilton was as that was where we were going to stay but it was really far from the town. We had dinner "again" at Pub on Wharf so yummy and the the next day Wednesday 9th we had brekki at the Mecure then headed off for for our journey to Franz Josef. Another amazing drive through Wanaka, Haast and past Fox Glacier town and on the way we want to look at the Blue Pools - which unfortunately weren't blue but still good. Got to our accomodation Franz Josef Oasis and it is very nice about 5 min drive out of the town.

Shotover jet with KJet Queenstown

Today woke up to the beautiful sunshine so decided to go for a big walk after breakfast around the Queenstown Gardens and up the river and then back through the town. Then we went on our Shotover ride which was awesome. Such a thrill in such a picturesque place. Went to cafe 19 for lunch and that as a little disappointing so off to our fav Pub on Wharf for dinner enjoying the fact that it doesn't get dark til 9.30pm - love it!!!

Gondola,Luge and lunch Skyline Restaurant

Well today we got the Gondola up to the Skyline Restaurant and part of our ticket included 3 Luge rides for the small price of $85 - a bargain as if you paid for everything separately it ended up costing $110!! The weather was not the best raining a lot of the time we were up there but we managed to get enough dry time to do our 3 Luge rides - OMG so much fun!!! Then it was off to lunch at the Skyline restaurant - it was a buffet and was very yummy so much food.