Next day we went straight from our B&B to do the half-day hike up to Franz Josef. (Before we get into this, a little side note about all our B&Bs because we are having too many adventures to get much into that. The places we are staying are all amazing-- robes, baths, fancy linens, the works. And Brendan is being good by enjoying all the yogurt and muesli he can get his hands on, but I have gained about 8 pounds eating full NZ breakfasts EVERY day-- including eggs, bacon, tomato, hash browns and about 4 pieces of toast. Plus, I manage to have fish and chips every day. But I digress.) Anyway...
Even though we have previously complained about our unexpected hike through Sydney, we have been super jazzed about hiking one of the glaciers for a long time. Yesterday was finally the day and it did not disappoint. It was a long, hard day-- we bus to the national park area, hike into the glacier (about 7 km or 1.5 hours round trip) and then actually hike/climb the glacier (say it with me like a Kiwi-- glass-ee-er) for about 2.5 hours. We hiked on the ice!! With ice talons or crampons or whatever you want to call them. It was really great. And we were devastatingly good at it. But we're so sore today-- lots of climbing steep steps carved into the ice. We can't wait to bore you all with more details and pictures. We're posting one but have about 15 more.
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