Fox Glacier NZ (south island)

The glacier was the main reason for this stop, not much in the town itself...very small with a handful of shops and accomodation!
We did manage to do a little walk on our arrival, Gillespies beach walk it took us down to another seal colonie...the walk wasn't great, probably the worst we have done yet. We walked on the pebble beach for about 45mins it was really windy and the sand was whipping round us..then we walked in the bush for a bit but there was just nothing to see, and finally reached the colonie but no seals, disappointed!!!
We booked the full day tour on the Glacier, it was good we both enjoyed it but there was a lot of hanging around and it wasn't as challenging as we thought it was gonna be? The Tour guide Dennis was good, he told us loads about the glacier, was really informative! We spent about 3hrs on the glacier, Dennis was cutting away steps all the while for us with his pick so it was fairly easy to walk on, we did manage to get quite high up in the glacier and some parts were a little tricky and some small crevice's we had to get through!
We stayed in this little cottage, the first night it was full, well when i say full there was only 6 of us there 3 couples. We got chatting to this couple from Great Yarmouth, we ended up having a right laugh with them but they left the next day! The other couple left to so we had the place to ourselves, it was good we got back after our glacier trip and just chilled it was really nice, felt normal!!