Late afternoon at the Franz Josef Glacier on the west coast of New Zealand's south island. We drove here after getting off the TranzAlpine train at Greymouth. It took about 2 1/2 hours but the drive was beautiful and really gave us a chance to see this part of NZ up close. It is an incredible combination of high mountain peaks, rainforest, farmland and ocean, all right next to each other. Although we had planned to hike to the bottom of the glacier the next morning (you can get to within about 100 meters depending on conditions) we decided to press on to the north. It was a good thing that we left early because the coast drive was so incredible that it took us about 8 hours to get from the glacier to our next stop here in Marlborough.
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