The weather broke this morning at around 11 AM. Too late for our heli-hike tour, though. It was cancelled. They were fully booked for the next two days, so we couldn't reschedule.
Instead, we hiked to the Franz Josef glacier. Not too hard, took about 2 hours return. At least we got to see it.
All things considered, even with the train cancellation and the heli-hike cancellation, we were much luckier than other tourists. Some never got out of Christchurch, some got trapped in between closures on highways, many couldn't get accommodations, some had to sleep on buses that couldn't go anywhere. We heard of at least one campervan blown over by the winds. The highways around us were still closed this morning but reopened by noon.
Just watched Canada lose to Great Britain in curling, now a little R&R outside on the porch.
Forecast looks good for tomorrow.
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