Day Thirty Five Fox Glacier to Makarora

So the sun shone today and this is what we'd been missing with the rain and clouds. 

Short blog tonight as we're becoming a bit blasé about the scenery. More mountains, snow, rainforest, glacier, waterfalls. We're heading for Mt Cook and although very close to it from Fox there's no road through so have to go round the glacier - 2 day's drive for us. 

Quite a long drive - from 11am till 5pm. The beast is not fast and a bit unstable on the roads so speed is not easy. However we ambled on stopping en route at any attraction we came to. Everything is amazingly signposted and tracks all well laid out. Stopped for first break a beach at Haast. 

Also stopped to look down on Seal colony where the seals were only really visible through camera lens. 

Then inland through Haast Pass, stopped to admire the waterfalls. 

and the blue rocks pools. Some crazies were jumping off the bridge but we resisted. 

Parked up in the middle of nowhere. A place called Makarora. Beautiful surroundings, very peaceful, hopefully no sand flies (they've been biting today every time we got out the van) and sunshine!

Night night folks. We're half way through our holiday. Eek!