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Tuesday, December 27, 2016

NZ2016: Day 12 Fox Glacier 6 Dec 2016


Heli Hike !  That was how I spent my 21st Birthday...so at 39th 1day ..I was back at Fox Glacier

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Breakfast at Full of Beans, Franz Josef

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My choice: poached eggs with bacon

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Weather was bad ..so we weren't able to know if we could fly till 5mins before trip..
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Waiting for our heli

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In the bus

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First sight of Glacier
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It was ice in there..really slippery

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When the heli arrived, everyone got to squat down due to the strong wind...

I was glad that we didn't bring Jared along..cos it was really dangerous to walk on the ice..even I had a fall...Compared to glacier walk 18yrs ago, this heli hike was much easier..in fact, I could almost remembered every detail of the walk, like how daddy asked me to walk faster, so that will not delay the team and make angmoh not happy...haha..The last time we only paid NZ30+ for the walk..now we paid NZD425 each for the heli hike.  It was a good birthday present for myself...No regrets!


The kids and grand were left in motel..so they visited the kiwi exhibit..and paid like NZD50 to go in...Happened that kiwi exhibit only had 3 kiwi under super darkness..*faint*..But Jared learnt a lot of new knowledge.
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Most times at the hotel they will watch cartoon over cartoon...

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Black black kiwi

58  on crone  2nd most ex motel after the barn..but motel was just so so

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Taken in the heli

NZ2016: Day 11 Fox Glacier, Franz Josef 5 Dec 2016

Happy Birthday to me!  Today was another long ride to Franz Josef



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Short ride after Wanaka, we came to this lookout point..
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Haast Blue Pool
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We were harassed by so much sandfly here..it was like mosquito and gave us bites.  But the kids had lots of fun stacking the stone


I had to nag daddy throughout how are we going to find a cake along the west coast, no town, no supermarket after we left Wanaka...finally we were back at this Fox Glacier restaurant which I believed I celebrated my 21st birthday after fox glacier hike...

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Lake Matheson Walk...Jared like this fern so much he had to take a pic of it
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No mirror...cos water was not calm at all
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Dinner at The Landing..all the food only cost NZD150,..we taobao half of them for lunch/dinner the next day
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