In the Fox Glacier parking lot I get my
chance to photograph a Jucy camper van. Jucy is a huge company in New
Zealand. They rent camper vans and cars and do tours and cruises,
Somehow I think the name would not go over big in the USA with its
combination of puritanism and political correctness.
Grandpa spots a rock that says BEN was
here. Really?
We spot our first ranger, a metal
cutout.
Then we actually spot a real ranger
repairing a fence. He says he will soon be extinct. Hmm?
Lots of nice shots of Fox Glacier. Its
dirty toe and the black sand remind me of the sand in Barrow, Alaska.
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| You can barely make out a group of people on the glacier with a guide, near the middle of the picture. |
We get a nice shot of Mt. Cook, which
was discovered from this west side.
At Franz Joseph Glacier we just walk to
Peter's Pool, a kettle lake discovered by Peter Westland in 1894 when
he was out camping by himself at age 9. The tomtit's are swooping
around on the other side of the pool and two ducks fly over.
We stop by Ross and do a drive through
tour of the gold fields. We are very familiar with the progression of
gold mining from streams to hydraulic mining and dredging to hard
rock mining.
Our last stop today is the Hokitika
Museum. Lots of the town history. This building was a library
donated by Andrew Carnegie. It was in disrepair and was scheduled to
be bulldozed when the historical society saved it, repaired it and
made it into a museum.
William is looking for a greenstone
(pounamu) pendant. So we look in a few stores and will continue
tomorrow.
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