Mount Cook

We finally found sunshine!!!!

From our wet and snowy tramp we headed south to Mt Cook which is the largest mountain in New Zealand. Also in the area is the Tasman Glacier which is suppose to be the deepest glacier in the world, 600 meters at its deepest.

As our legs were still healing from our last adventure when we decided to take on the "difficult" Mueller Hut tramp in the Mt Cook/Aorika (I think that is how you spell the native version) National Park. We quickly came to the conclusion that NZ does not know what a switch back is as we steadily climbed 3200 ft in 3 miles. I honestly didn't think that I would be able to walk the next day. But once we got to the top the views were well worth all of the effort. We had large blue glaciers infront of us and practically felt like we were on top of the world. We even got to witness a couple ice falls/avalanches in front of us. This was very cool, but also sad to think that the glaciers are shrinking so fast each year.

Sunrise on a glacier Mt Sefton next to Mt Cook

me in front of Mt Sefton

We spent two great days in Mt Cook and saw many beautiful things, Breezy decided the campground we stayed in is the most beautiful one he has ever camped in/seen.

On our way from Mt Cook to the east coast where we currently are we did get to stop at the Elephant Rocks. Which are sandstone sculptures that were used in the battle scene of Narnia, pretty darn cool.

Guess we should go for now. Hope you are all doing well in the states!

Waterfall behind one of our campsites

Toni and Jason