Dear Blog readers

Hello from Franz Josef. This is just a quickie to say that there are now some more photo's on flickr, some from the end of our time in Oz and then the rest are of the beginning of our time of NZ.

We have had a good 3 days here, just relaxing a bit and watching the rain!! When it hasn't been raining (which hasn't been too bad really!) we have walked by the 2 glaciers in the area-the other one being Fox Glacier. Walking in the dry river bed below the glacier entails scrabbling over rocks, jumping over gushing streams and gasping at lovely waterfall (which after the rain have been plentiful!). It is a beautiful place, with amazing majestic snow capped mountains and lots of rain forest type scenery-big ferns and loads of trees. Its lovely. Today, Linda is off doing a Heli hike on Franz Josef and will fill you all in soon on her expedition.

That's all for now

Love Penny