It was an amazing and very unique sight. The sedemented layers of the cliffs had weathered un evenly. Leaving the effect of big stone pancakes lying on top of each other in vast towers.
We then drove to the Franz Josef glacier. Due to poor weather we were unable to go ice climbing, so had to be satisfied with a short walk to the glacial head. Where a huge ice glacier was nestled snugly between the two arms of the gorge.
We took some rude photos with the ranger cut out.
We then continued south via a mirror like lake where a really nice older guy took some photos of us, which Charlie ruined every time!
I learnt a very important dietary lesson today. Eating a tin of kidney beans does not come without its consequences.
We arrived at the campsite, I was fit to burst, but the long drop toilets was the most vile place on earth so I crept away from the others after pitching the tent under cover of darkness. I found a nice little ditch that I reckoned no child was going to fall in for a nasty surprise.
I then had to sit there squatting in the drizzle like a filthy animal. To make matters worse I realised mid 'movement' that although I had gone away from the tents I had accidentally picked a spot not ten feet from a bloody campervan! So as they approached the window to wash up I had to duck, making myself a human ball so my head wasn't visible poking out of the ditch, revealing my squaller!
We then went down to Gillespie beach to camp in the shadow of mount cook. We had a really nice evening listening to the Ricky Gervais show before the storm rolled in.
We were all awoken in the early hours of the morning by the most intense storm I have ever witnessed. Well, I witnessed a bit less than everyone else as I slept through the first hour!
The tent was being punished by the stiff unrelenting wind as lightning struck not 100 meters away! The thunder was deafening and the rain savage. We picked our moment as the rain died a little and dashed to the car and got the hell out of there!
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