Meltwater and Midgies

We headed south towards glacier country. Along the way we diverted to Hokitika Gorge where a walk to the suspension bridge gives you a view of the improbably blue glacier meltwater.  It was also our first experience of the vicious little bitey creatures known as “midgies” or "sandflies, although the proper name is the West Coast Blackfly . They are tiny but nasty and predictably Lyn, known to be an irresistable target, stayed well covered and kept moving whenever we were in midgie country.

It wasn't raining - but there were midgies!

Then we drove on to Fox Glacier. But by this time the rain had found us. In such weather glacier viewing is not really possible. In only thing we enjoyed about Fox Glacier was our first experience of NZ "fush n’ chups" and a beer at the Heartland Hotel. 
  
 

The weather closing in - Fox glacier