Fancy a walk on the ice?

We've just left the lovely little town of Fox Glacier. It was so lovely that our hostel felt more like a cozy coffee shop, and so little that there was no ATM. And, suprise, suprise, there was a huge glacier!!! I don't know about anybody else, but I don't think I've ever seen a glacier other than in pictures. So, I'll tell you what they look like in real life. We're mid-spring here in New Zealand, and there wasn't any fresh snow on the glacier. It wasn't nearly as pretty and blinding white as I expected. It did have massive amounts rock that have been pulled up from the valley floor as the glacier expands forward. It also had amazingly blue crevaces and small caves. Quite stunning. I can only hope our pictures (not yet posted) will do justice. I can't even count how many times our guide said very simply, "Don't fall in." Fortunately, nobody did fall in. We did get to walk all over the glacier for about 6 hours as our guide chipped away at the ice making steps for us and leading us to places where we couldn't fall off or in. Good guide.