For the Easter long weekend we headed up the west coast of the south island, NZ. We always get an extra day for "Southland Day" (We live in Southland but who knows why there's a holiday to celebrate it, we don't ask, just enjoy the extra day!).
The west coast tends to be extremely windy and cold but we lucked out with some mild and calm days (although one day was wet enough to have our heli-hike cancelled). Instead we went out the the amazing "Pancake Rocks" and got to see blow holes and geysers and crazy rock formations the wind and sea have created.
Finally, we got to get up on the glacier via a helicopter ride. We spent 2 hours hiking around with a guide through the most incredible ice formations and caves. Without crampons, I think we'd have slid to the bottom of the mountain. It was slick!
We also checked out the new glacier hot pools and the new glacier centre where they have heaps of info about the glacier and indoor ice climbing (why, I don't know, no one was actually trying it the day we were there).
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