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Travel stories from Fox Glacier

Collection of 8 travel stories from Fox Glacier, New Zealand. Written by your friends on the road.

Traveler franandtom

Ice, ice and more ice!
2008-02-21, Fox Glacier, New Zealand. By: franandtom

So we arrived and fox glacier, did another *cough* skydive *cough* which was AMAZING! you jump out at the height of towering snow capped mountains, over the glacier- awesome. Although i was really par...

 
Picture from story It’s water, but not as we know it. Just got chocolate in the keyboard.

It’s water, but not as we know it. Just got chocolate in the keyboard.
2008-02-19, Fox Glacier, New Zealand. By: ronnieed

Welcome friends and family to Glacier Tuesday. Today we will mainly be visiting glaciers. We headed off from Greymouth mid morning, skipped around several campervans and made our way to Franz Joseph g...

 
Picture from story 20th August

20th August
2007-08-20, Fox Glacier, New Zealand. By: amy4rory

Hey all Today was brilliant!!! After we woke up we had a look around Greymouth, we went into a museum where they showed how they made Jade pieces. After that we drove to Franz Josef where it is...

 
Picture from story Walking on ice

Walking on ice
2007-01-12, Fox Glacier, New Zealand. By: AnitaS

Woke to not terribly nice weather the morning of our Heli-Hike. Weather forcast assured us that it would clear by lunch time and that was fairly correct. We fare welled Kate this morning – the aweso...

 
Picture from story Scenic drives and walking on ice

Scenic drives and walking on ice
2006-10-24, Fox Glacier, New Zealand. By: lizelliott

On Sunday we had a long drive from Nelson to Christchurch via Kaikoura. On the way we stopped to take pictures of seals basking on the rocks. The weather was rainy and cold, and we were supposed to be...

 
Picture from story Mountains and glaciers

Mountains and glaciers
2005-04-02, Fox Glacier, New Zealand. By: brooke

We are on the bus again at 8:30 am headed to Greymouth. We are going there to get on the Trans Alpine train which takes us back to Christchurch. The past two nights we spent in Fox Glacier at the I...

 
Picture from story Milford Sound

Milford Sound
2005-03-31, Fox Glacier, New Zealand. By: brooke

I’m on the bus and headed to Fox Glacier. We have stopped 5 times already and I am getting very anxious. I really just want to get off the bus and be there. Yesterday we were in the bus for 10 hou...

 
Picture from story Glacier overload

Glacier overload
2004-11-02, Fox Glacier, New Zealand. By: rossa

We caught the morning bus to Fox Glacier (about an hour South). Having already seen a glacier close-up we decided to give it a miss and do a walk through the rainforest (no, it didn't rain!). There...

 


 
 

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