Today I’ve had an exciting day spending most of it clambering up the Franz Josef Glacier. What amazed me was the size of the glacier once you got close to it.[thumb:1302:i][newline]

Having donned crampons we started to walk up the glacier. I decided to join the front group that was going to go the fastest. In the warm sunshine the guides were having to recut a lot of the paths and. At the bottom the surface of the glacier was covered in rocks but you could see the ice below as the guides cut stairs in the ice. We were lucky enough to find a small ice cavern to crawl through in the snow. The blue colour of the ice was intense. I was told that in a couple of days time it would be likely to be gone with the roof having melted away.[thumb:1319:l][thumb:1322:l].[newline]

The crevasses were beautiful. I can imagine that going up there everyday it will be different with different hazards and new caverns and crevasses.[thumb:1318:l][newline]

Having got back from the glacier I decided that I’d give quad biking. I’d have to admin I’m not the best quad biker in the world but at least I didn’t flip it on our journey across grassland, river bed and forest. Certainly a varied terrain and I wouldn’t mind giving it another go in the desert where’s there’s less ruts and things to hit.[thumb:1353:l][thumb:1354:l][thumb:1355:l][newline]

After having a dinner out with Briony, Megan and Roxie I headed off to the Blue Ice Cafe where Caz was celebrating her birthday with Ruth. I was pleasently surprised to bump into Claire there as well. With the magic bus you can’t help bumping into people again and again. However it was an early night for me as the Magic Bus was leaving at 7:30 am next day.