Do Fox's Glacier Mints came from the Fox Glacier? I wonder if they are really tiny bits of the Glacier cut away for our delight. Doesn't explain Fox's Glacier fruits though...
The Road leaving Queenstown was interesting - loads of twisty roads leading to tops of mountains and then back down again. Needless to say the view was breathtaking - as we have come to expect from New Zealand so far.
Early afternoon we were following signs to Fox's Glacier, a really old Glacier that has been left since the last Ice age. It is now melting rather quickly and retreating at about a foot a day. It is still very impressive though, the valley that holds it is huge and very dangerous with rocks falling all the time. I didn't really appreciate the size of the Glacier until I saw some people right next to it who looked like the size of ants!!! The Glacier twists through the valley much like a frozen river. It has peaks and dips that are like a tide frozen on a canvass. Pretty amazing to see!
Today we are going to see another Glacier the Franz Joseph Glacier, it makes me think about the beginning of time and what the earth was like before humans invaded it!
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