Day 26

Drove up to Mount Cook today.  Nice weather most of the way, pretty warm.  Uneventful drive except for a stop at the Elephant Rocks.

The scenery in and around Mount Cook is beautiful.  Mountains, valleys, rivers, glaciers.  There is no town, although they call it a village.  A few places to stay and a couple of places to eat.  As you can imagine, the places to eat are priced accordingly.  The buffet dinner at the Hermitage, which is the biggest place to stay in Mount Cook, the buffet dinner - I repeat - buffet dinner is $63.  You get the idea.  We found a place which wasn't cheap, but was more reasonable.

Today, which had very nice weather for most of the day in the village, we were scheduled to do our previously cancelled heli-hike from Franz Josef.  We had rebooked it for Mount Cook.  You guessed it - cancelled again.  Bad weather up on the glacier apparently.  So we have rebooked again for tomorrow.  This is our last chance.

Tonight we were to go stargazing, but to no one's surprise, it also was cancelled.  Cloudy and raining.  Tomorrow is fully booked, so that's out as we are gone off to Christchurch after tomorrow.  Maybe we can venture out and see something on our own.