Thursday 27th February
We walked to the viewing point for the Franz Josef Glacier this morning, a round trip of 6 km through rainforest and along glacial moraine. On the way there and back we passed some gorgeous high waterfalls crashing down from the cliffs. James was loving all the geological formations and the layers that he could see on the rocks. The glacier itself has retreated over the years and is now hanging quite far up the valley. The clouds were low and as we returned to the car it started raining lightly. We drove about 20 km down to the village of Fox Glacier where we had lunch in a nice wee café. In the afternoon it continued to rain so we decided to go to the glacier hot pools which are just down from our motel in Franz Josef. This was excellent fun; we booked a session in a small private pool and it felt as if we were in the middle of the rainforest. Then we went into the main pools where we chatted and floated around in the hot water while being rained on from above through a canopy of leaves.
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