Early bird means a sleepy one later.

The alarm went of at 5am, this is far to early for a holiday. We slowly wake up and get moving as were on a mission to get to Lake Matheson before the sun does. Sunrise was due at 5:59 and by 5:20 we were pulling out of the campsite. Not feeling awake but as we pulled into the car park about 4km down the road we can see the sky is on fire over the mountains and peaking through the clouds. We were moving as quickly as we could to the Reflection Island where we would get the best picture over the lake. There was a German guy who had pulled up in the car park next to us with a similar idea, he was a bit strange as when we started jogging he did as well :S

We arrived at the spot to take the pictures and it was still a chilly morning, sadly the fire sky had finished and it had returned to the normal morning sunrise. We spent around 20 minutes taking photos and getting nibbled by the local pondlife. During this time a few others arrived but we had managed to get the best spot right down by the lake. It was perfectly still and gave a crystal reflection even if the clouds were again covering the mountains in the background.

From here we returned to the campsite and Amanda fell asleep for a couple of hours while I looked for places to stay in Hawaii as this was still not sorted and starting to become a small issue. A few hours later and issue resolved and my turn for a nap and Amanda was on to her blogging or more facebook I think.

When I awoke we had lunch before heading for the Rainforest. This was something that highly excited Amanda, where as I was more interested in the valley walk up to face of Fox Glacier. It was around a 30 minute walk and Amanda got geeky and had a guide and we had to stop and be read each section on the way. Finding this funny I took the piss and dressed as much as possible like a nerd.

After this it was back via town to the campsite to have an evening chilling out and relaxing as we were to be up early the next day to go on our Heli-hike up Fox Glacier.

Just before bed we were children and played on the play area before bed and there cool springless trampoline.