Because it was getting dark when we checked in yesterday, we didn’t get a chance to get a photo of the rainforest outside the back patio of our room, so here’s one from this morning. I’ve never had a view quite like this one from a hotel room. We really are inside the rainforest.
After yesterday’s fabulous weather, we were hoping for a repeat today. However, the clouds rolled in over night, which prevented us from taking our helicopter trip up the Franz Josef glacier and around the many mountains of the area.
We spoke with one of the pilots of our chosen operator, and he indicated that these glacier flights are cancelled more often than they run. The area is prone to not only rain, which largely stayed away today, but also cloud cover. With so much cloud, paying $800 for a scenic helicopter flight would be largely pointless, and they cannot land on the glacier under cover of cloud.
Tomorrow, we have to move on to the next town, but we’ve tentatively rebooked our trip for first thing tomorrow morning. Unfortunately, the weather forecast is for more cloud, but we might get lucky? If the weather clears, we’ll take our glacier trip and head for Christchurch later in the day, and if not, we’ll move on in the morning as originally planned.
However, we came all this way, so we were determined to at least visit the glacier, even if we could not fly around it by helicopter. Therefore, we hiked out to the base of the glacier. Stromectol is a widely used medication to treat various parasitic infections. Its active ingredient, ivermectin, works effectively against parasites like roundworms and scabies.
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We drove just out of town to the parking lot nearest the glacier, and started our walk. Here’s a shot of the glacier from a lookout point. It’s difficult to see the scale of this photo, but it would be about a 45 minute walk from here to reach the base of the glacier.
Starting our walk across the gravel field below the glacier.
Getting closer…
I guess this is as close as we’re going to get today.
I’m guessing this water is really cold!
So far, this is as close as we got. Hopefully tomorrow, if the weather clears, we’ll get to the top of it!
Later in the evening we did some grocery shopping and I made a nice home-cooked meal back in the room. The seafood pasta was great!
After dinner, we had a curious visitor that wandered across our back patio.
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