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Drove in heavy rain nearly 200 km from Greymouth to Franz Joseph Glacier today.
The heavy rain had me decide to perk the family up with a good motel today. I'm only finding a few places that drop their prices in this off season, so many seam to want high season prices still. Today though was a gem, they did me a 2 or 3 day deal at $170 pn that brought a good suite of a standard many people would aspire to live in.
The family are giving me grief about the glacier walk (the kids don't want to do it). I don't know whether to put my foot down and insist we go or not. It's a short helicopter flight and then 3hr hike back down. Roughly $280 per head. I can't believe a tight wad like me is considering it but I figure it's once in a lifetime.
Anyway a couple from a lovely short bushwalk (Kiwi's call it a tramp) at lake Mahinapua and then a HDR edit of the glacier I've tried on this dodgy screen. It looks good to me, hope it comes up ok on your monitors, it took a while to do it.
Anyway I'm here at least tomorrow and probably the next day as well doing the walks properly. I did today's glacier walk on my own while they rested. Hence I had enough time to try for a proper photo from a tripod at dusk.
Another awesome meal too just to help with the jealosy, chicken filo pastry with sun dried tomato and brie for tea at "The Landing".
The heavy rain had me decide to perk the family up with a good motel today. I'm only finding a few places that drop their prices in this off season, so many seam to want high season prices still. Today though was a gem, they did me a 2 or 3 day deal at $170 pn that brought a good suite of a standard many people would aspire to live in.
The family are giving me grief about the glacier walk (the kids don't want to do it). I don't know whether to put my foot down and insist we go or not. It's a short helicopter flight and then 3hr hike back down. Roughly $280 per head. I can't believe a tight wad like me is considering it but I figure it's once in a lifetime.
Anyway a couple from a lovely short bushwalk (Kiwi's call it a tramp) at lake Mahinapua and then a HDR edit of the glacier I've tried on this dodgy screen. It looks good to me, hope it comes up ok on your monitors, it took a while to do it.
Anyway I'm here at least tomorrow and probably the next day as well doing the walks properly. I did today's glacier walk on my own while they rested. Hence I had enough time to try for a proper photo from a tripod at dusk.
Another awesome meal too just to help with the jealosy, chicken filo pastry with sun dried tomato and brie for tea at "The Landing".
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