The Southern Alps

Hello from the Southern Alps! Yesterday we drove from Greymouth on the west coast to Franz Joseph, home of one of the two big glaciers in these parts (the other one being Fox glacier, which is what Fox's glacier mints were named after...maybe). We drove through some beautiful mountain scenery and the sun even came out just in time to take this picture of a bright blue glacial river (bottom pic). Today we visited the foot of both glaciers on walking trails and very impressive they were too. Tomorrow (Friday) we're booked on to a full day guided glacier walk on Franz Joseph (or Franz Ferdinand as Tim has taken to calling it), which we're excited about, although it's all a bit tame for Tim Mears. On a sad note, our camera died today. We think it died of natural causes since neither one of us dropped it / threw it at a passing possum, but it means that pictures might be a bit less frequent until we source another. I'll leave it up to you to decide if that's a bad thing...