Monday, January 02, 2006
Franz Josef Glacier / Pancake rocks
On the first of January I left Wanaka to go and see the Franz Josef glacier. The drive there through the Mount aspiring National Park was amazingly beautiful once again.
What struck me -besides the landscape- was the amount of dead possums on the road. In the 150km I drove I saw 67 road kills!
There seems to be quite a problem with possums in New Zealand: it's a plague with an estimated 60 million possums.
When I arrived in Franz Josef the weather was terrible; grey and wet. The lady at the backpackers informed me that the forecastn for the next few days wasn't going to be much better. I wanted to take a helicopter tour over the glacier because I still can't hike for longer periods of time but in bad weather that's a waste.
So I decided to leave the next morning to see the pancake rocks at Punakaiki. Because it was quite windy the waves made it spectacular.
What struck me -besides the landscape- was the amount of dead possums on the road. In the 150km I drove I saw 67 road kills!
There seems to be quite a problem with possums in New Zealand: it's a plague with an estimated 60 million possums.
When I arrived in Franz Josef the weather was terrible; grey and wet. The lady at the backpackers informed me that the forecastn for the next few days wasn't going to be much better. I wanted to take a helicopter tour over the glacier because I still can't hike for longer periods of time but in bad weather that's a waste.
So I decided to leave the next morning to see the pancake rocks at Punakaiki. Because it was quite windy the waves made it spectacular.
# posted by Unknown @ 22:09 
