Sunday, June 26, 2005

Fantastic Road trip down West Coast of New Zealand.


A Road trip can't get better then this! At the end of it, I got to hike the world famous Franz Joesph glacier. IF you ever get the chance, have a go.. the vid will show whats wat!

NZ world Famous WestCoast and glaciers Vid file hosted by www.putfile.com

Outback Born, 20+ years in the tropics, first time in Snow.









Being born in a place like Mount Isa, which is an remote mining town, in the far north west of Queensland. The chances of seeing any snow locally won't happen. Like going to a desert and expecting to see icebergs! Only in an ice age.
So the chance to hike a glacier for 8-10 hours was the best way to experience it all in one hit. I listen to a couple of irish lasses. Who told me to get in every first group to make sure I see everything. Well, what they fail to mention was the first group took the longest and hardest routes. It was for the hardcore glacier hiker.. That would have been fine if I'd not being wrecking my body on ten different adventure tours before, over the past couple weeks. But god dam it, I made it. We lost afew people down the crack of a large chasm, but I thought, hell they knew the risks when they choose to come on this hike.. To bloody cold to stop.. Like who's going to miss a few english backpackers in NZ? Theres thousands of them..

Able Tasman area of New Zealand.

Sharing one Of My fave pics from my travels. Able tasman, area of NZ.. northern part of the south island. Yes, the NORTHERN part of The Southern Part.. OF NZ. got it?
Here is Myself, Moniek again and another crazy dutch girl, who's name has long dripped out of my brain. She was about 19 years old, came to NZ for a year, bought a car for 600 bucks and drove around the country. Working on sheep farms and anything she could get her hands in. I think she fall in love with a kiwi sheep farmer of about 30 years of age. She bumped into me and moniek as we were touring the able tasman in our own hire car.