It's getting progressively colder the further south we travel. We have now finally bought Peter some "lovely" trakkie pant! I've bought some thermal long johns and socks, it's dipping down to about -2 at night. We are warm enough in Foxy, however, we do wake up with the condensation inside the car frozen! The camp sites that we are staying at are pretty well set up. There are hundreds of travelers in camper vans of all sizes and from a dozen different companies on the roads, so the campsites are really geared towards the likes of us. Most have kitchens and decent lounges. So our routine has evolved into getting into camp going straight to the lounge and cranking the heater up! Because we have access to a kitchen our meals aren't as basic as they were in the states, we've even treated ourselves to a great steak, chicken, veggies and rice! We've also managed to catch some of the Olympics in the camp lounges which has been really cool, except the coverage here is obviously on all the Kiwi athletes.
The sun is shining a lot more which allows for a lot more photo opportunities.
Peter has received a gold medal of his own. He is the first person on the Kimmy and Peter team to receive a speeding fine - $170!! The traffic cop, which I fondly named Anal Al, was perfectly positioned 100m from where the speed limit goes from 100kmh to 50kmh. So Peter was caught doing 75kmh. Anal Al was way too polite and had way too much time on his hands, chatting to us about the weather, driving conditions, and other dead boring stuff. Peter being the one who talks to anyone and everyone was being equally as polite. All I wanted to do was take the ticket and tell Anul Al to piss off!
We've also had our first viewing of the Southern Alps, and they really are beautiful. We think we would probably have been more in awe if we hadn't seen the Rockies first. None the less it's a gorgeous sight and once again we have loads of pictures of mountains with snow on them!
On our drive south along the West Coast we have been lucky in that we have gotten to see two glaciers. The Franz Joseph Glacier and the Fox Glacier. Both glaciers are currently in retreat. The glaciers themselves are huge, it's like a huge, incredibly deep river frozen in time, with the front of the glacier about 5 stories high. There are signs along the way which indicate where the glaciers were in 1750, about 1km from it's current location. The rocks all around are scarred from the glacier movement, they look like deep scratches which all go in the same direction. The vegetation around is also an indicator of where the glaciers used to be. You can see actual lines of growth along the valley.
We are on our way to Queenstown for 3 days of skiing. Whooo hoooo!!!!
The sun is shining a lot more which allows for a lot more photo opportunities.
Peter has received a gold medal of his own. He is the first person on the Kimmy and Peter team to receive a speeding fine - $170!! The traffic cop, which I fondly named Anal Al, was perfectly positioned 100m from where the speed limit goes from 100kmh to 50kmh. So Peter was caught doing 75kmh. Anal Al was way too polite and had way too much time on his hands, chatting to us about the weather, driving conditions, and other dead boring stuff. Peter being the one who talks to anyone and everyone was being equally as polite. All I wanted to do was take the ticket and tell Anul Al to piss off!
We've also had our first viewing of the Southern Alps, and they really are beautiful. We think we would probably have been more in awe if we hadn't seen the Rockies first. None the less it's a gorgeous sight and once again we have loads of pictures of mountains with snow on them!
On our drive south along the West Coast we have been lucky in that we have gotten to see two glaciers. The Franz Joseph Glacier and the Fox Glacier. Both glaciers are currently in retreat. The glaciers themselves are huge, it's like a huge, incredibly deep river frozen in time, with the front of the glacier about 5 stories high. There are signs along the way which indicate where the glaciers were in 1750, about 1km from it's current location. The rocks all around are scarred from the glacier movement, they look like deep scratches which all go in the same direction. The vegetation around is also an indicator of where the glaciers used to be. You can see actual lines of growth along the valley.
We are on our way to Queenstown for 3 days of skiing. Whooo hoooo!!!!
No comments:
Post a Comment