Franz Joseph Glacier

So after a few weeks of searching I have secured a job, a house, and a free ski pass. This has given me a lot of free time to go on adventures, and just relax a bit. So last Saturday I spent the day with some new friends in the hostel listening to music, playing some guitar, playing cards, and generally just lounging around for the day. As the day came to an end my new friends Gabrielle and Joao convinced Nate and I to make the trip up to Franz Joseph Glacier with them.

So within a hour Nate and I had packed and we were on the road. Joao had a rented camper van so after an hour or so of driving... and stopping a few times to look out at the lake under the moon, and pick up some fire wood... we pulled off at a camp site ate some dinner and sat by our poor attempt of a fire, then piled into the van to sleep for the night.

Going to bed in darkness we had no idea what we were going to wake up to, to our surprise it was an amazing view of a river and surrounded by snow caped mountains. So after eating breakfast and sitting around playing guitar some more we were on the road again. The rest of the drive to Franz proved to be quite distracting as we seemed to make stops every 30 minutes or so. Some of which included some interesting rapids, a water fall coming out of the rain forest, and some stacked up rocks along the beach. In Canadian style I did my best to make one that resembled an Inukshuk.

After finally making it to the Franz we went out for the night in the only bar in town. Then the following day after Nate and I decided it wasn't worth paying to go on the glacier when we could go on one in Canada for free, we left the other two and made our way back to Wanaka

Andy