300km today from Franz Josef to Wanaka and, once again, we have been lucky with the weather and the sun followed us all day. Now I am relaxing at a new camp site here in Wanaka and typing this with a glass of wine to supplement the fantastic campsite view over the town and its lake. A hot shower each as we wait for the laundry and then we’ll head into town for dinner.
Boiled eggs and toast at the camper van for breakfast at our Franz Josef campsite and then we got on the road around 10.30am to go the 30km to Fox Glacier where we did the easy hike around Lake Matheson for a couple of hours. Sometimes you can see the reflection of Mt. Cook, covered in snow, in the lake but today wasn’t the day-too many clouds around the mountain but we did get glimpses of the glaciers covering its slopes now and again. Coffees and a shared choc. muffin as a reward for the hike and then south on route 6, still hugging the western coast of the south island to Haast. Nothing much to see there and so we blew through Haast and started to climb through the Southern Alps and then down into Wanaka.
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