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Franz Josef Glacier & Road Trippin

Hi friends!
I’m blogging to you from the road. Mark and I have been bopping around from town to town, doing the classic South Island road trip. Only about 20% of New Zealand’s population lives on the South Island although it’s fairly large in terms of land, so each village has only a couple hundred people. It’s been a lot of mountains, lush rainforests, cute creeks, ocean views, and little concept of time. 


Many of these towns were boom-and-bust gold mining attractions, and today are known for art galleries and haunted ghost tours. We ambled around Hokitika, which has a dozen shops featuring jade collections and a really cool glass blowing studio where we stood mesmerized watching glass creations in the making. 


We were both fairly in awe when we reached Franz Josef, the village built around the nearby glacier. With several snow-capped peaks, a relaxed attitude, and cozy shopping and dining establishments it feels like the quaint sort of place that you would find at the base of the Swiss Alps. 


This cute mountain villa was where we called home, and we were well taken care of by the couple who hosted us. 


A quick 75-minute hike (only 15,000 steps instead of 40,000 this time ;)) took us near the base of the glacier, which is known for its blue ice. The ice is actually turquoise colored and there are deep cracks large enough for people to walk through. Unfortunately, it is not possible to hike up on to the glacier from the trails due to the steep face, ongoing melting and the size of ice chunks that can fall off. Today it’s the fourth-largest glacier in New Zealand, and in photos it’s easy to see how much it’s shrunk in just the last handful of years. Get here before global warming finishes it off!


We were introduced to a kea along our hike, which is the world’s one and only alpine parrot. Mark ID’d it as a parrot right away and we now refer to it as Iago (Aladdin nostalgia, anyone?). New Zealand has approximately 200 species of birds but not a single native mammal. Apparently when it split from [Gondwana/Pangea], all the mammals missed the boat. That means there were no deer, squirrels, bears, wild cats, nothing. So, there are few threats to the birds and many of them evolved to not fly because they don’t need to – including the kiwi. And it’s a very safe place to spend time in the wilderness 🙂


Unwinding in hot spring pools was a perfect way to relax and reward some tired feet and muscles after a few solid hikes. It was also a good consolation prize after our heli-hike was cancelled due to weather yesterday.

We’ve been waiting for a break in the clouds to hop aboard a helicopter up to the glacier, and we finally got the chance this morning. We were both psyched to ride in a helicopter for the first time. While we didn’t get to tramp around on the snow or in the glacier, the views were spectacular and it was a fun experience. Since it was still rather cloudy we weren’t able to make it all the way up the glacier valley, and the helicopter company graciously didn’t charge us a penny. 

Onto Queenstown for NYE and a honeymoon surprise 🙂
Love, 

Melissa and Mark