Glaciers

My next stop was at the Fox and at the Franz Joseph Glaciers. They are fast and could move up to 5m per day. And Global Warming is "good" for them, they get up to 45 meter snow or 15 meter rain every year and because of that they are growing. NZ has over 3000 glaciers!

Imagine driving around and having seen no snow and glacier so far, than coming around the corner a windy road and instantly seeing this:



The mist comes from a river. Thats New Zealand, full of beautiful surprises!


And here is the Fox Glacier:


I arrived just in time of sunset to the Franz-Joseph Glacier. The tip of the neighbouring mountain was lighted beautifully by the golden sun.



I did a glacier tour on Franz-Joseph, which was nice. Here some impressions:

I was allowed to hold the tool of the guide to look more professional. We got cloth and cramp-ons with spikes from the tour company.



And here ice-man is coming out of his cave ;-)



We were walking between much much big and tall ice-formations:



The different colors have been impressive, especially these deep blues. The color comes from the enormous pressure, the ice get. The ice changes its color.