New Zealand - Fox Glacier - Bungee - Seals - Penguins

Hi everybody,

Here are the last pictures from New Zealand and probably the best ones... We have really been impressed by the South Island!

In the South Island, we hired a car and often slept inside like a mini campervan. It allowed us to stop and sleep in some wonderful places like you can see on the four first pictures.

Then, we went to Fox Glacier. This Glacier can move 5 meters a day (it's like 10 times faster than the Swiss Glaciers for e.g.). And to walk on it we had to use crampons.

There we found a tunnel made with ice (photo number 7) and of course Nic climb up with the guide and slid down until the bottom, getting wet all his but!

Don't miss the yellow eye penguin. There are only 3000 left in the world.

In Moeraki (close to Dunedin) we found some "egg stones" called bounders. Tina is sitting on one of them.

As you know New Zealand is the capital of Bungy jumping. That's why I couldn't leave the country without doing at least one of them. So, I choosed to do the highest one:The Nevis, 134 meters.
And yes, I was afraid! In the bus to get there, nobody was speaking. Once we arrived one girl starts to cry.
Everything was made to make us more afraid. We had to go on a very small platform where you could see the ground. Then, we get to a bigger cabin where you had windows at the bottom.
A lot of fear until the jump but after what a feeling! It gives you such a kick. When the elastic stops you falling down you start to scream to put all the fear out of you.

The strange mountain is Milford Sound, a world protected area in the South West. It'is raining the whole time in this Fjord.

At the end, we can see Nick with some seals (= ocas, phoques) swimming in the background.