Sunday 22 April. Lake Hawea to Fox Glacier

Wild West Coast.

Cruzy day today as we headed over to the West Coast.  Once again spectacular scenery.  We visited the blue pools where the water is so clear the salmon look like they’re swimming in thin air.  On the gravel beach people have been building some pretty cool cairns (stacked rocks).  So we added a few extra.  Didn’t hang around long, as one of the bonuses of the rain forest is the sandflies!!!.

On the gravel beach people have been building some pretty cool cairns (stacked rocks).  So we added a few extra.  Didn’t hang around long, as one of the bonuses of the rain forest is the sandflies!!!.

 We then headed over to Fox Glacier and had lunch at the Haast visitors centre where our blue and white friend made another appearance.

We encountered our first lot of rain but luckily it held off while we walked up to the glacier.  Fox glacier and surrounding scenery was, you guessed it, spectacular!  Its steep cliffs and dense rainforest was like a scene out of Jurassic park. The track takes you to within 200m of the terminal face of the glacier. This however was not close enough for some people who, despite the large number of warning signs, still have to climb the barriers and walk down to the terminal face, even though a couple tourists got killed in 2009!!!