While my brother was here, my children took him and Mom to the Glaciers, a few hour’s drive south of us. Fox Glacier is now inaccessible because roads washed out, but they walked as close as they could to Franz Josef, and explored some other places around there, too. On the way down there, they stopped at a historical site in Ross, where Joe found himself in the pillary.
They also stopped in Hari Hari to explore the mosaic garden, which is full of memorials for various people.
They walked to where they could see the glacier.
A rescue was in progress; someone had slipped and gotten hurt in the river bed.
They had rented a small cabin for the night. It had a kitchen, so meals were eaten there, and five people slept in it. The others pitched a tent.
At dark, several of them went to look at glowworms. For obvious reasons, it was difficult to take pictures of the worms!
In the morning, they did some more walking before heading for home. I’m not sure where this is, but somewhere near Franz Josef.
The last stop on the way home was at a beach near Greymouth.
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