Yesterday I started with the Earnslaw Burn Track, this is the view looking back not long after I started, Lake Wakatipu in the background

The first park of the track is through forest, forest and some more forest

But eventually the forest ends and I get my first view of the Earnslaw Glacier

The track continues along the ice cold Earnslaw Burn

Lots of small waterfalls

That all end up in the Earnslaw Burn and eventually in Lake Wakatipu

Getting closer

And closer

Almost there

Yes, finally there, this was the closest I could get to the glacier

I tried to get on the ice you see there but that wasn’t possible (without the right gear)

Anyway, I made it, yay!

Nice place to pitch the tent too

I mean, that’s an awesome view isn’t it?

Same view in the middle of the night, it was mighty cold though

This morning

And I’m on my way back out again

Looking back

And once more through the seemingly endless forest

Almost at the car again

And who is also at the car park!? Philip! I met him just a few days ago during another trip and by coincidence met him here again, which was very fortunate as he still had a yummie (Whittaker’s) chocolate bar of mine in his fridge. Om nom nom!

Map of the track, I continued way beyond where the red line stops though, almost to the glacier

Lake Wakatipu, on the way back to Queenstown

Coronet Peak, where I made a flight with my paraglider a little later

View towards Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu