• It was a full day's drive from Hanmer Springs to Aoraki Mount Cook National Park. It was one of the rainiest days of our tour. When we arrived Mount Cook was enshrouded by clouds.

• A view south from the outdoor viewing platform on our floor toward the entrance to the park on the same afternoon. That is Mount Cook Village in the foreground.

• Our room with a view at The Hermitage. The next morning we enjoyed a clear view of Mount Cook out this window.

• We awoke the next morning to this view. Aoraki Mount Cook is in the background on the right. The highest peak on the left is Mt Sefton, 3,151 m (10,338 ft).

• Aoraki Mount Cook. To the right of Mt Cook is Mt Wakefield.

• At 3,754 m (12,316 ft),Aoraki Mount Cook is the highest point in New Zealand.

• Mt Sefton

• Mt Sefton (left), Mt Footstool (center), and La Perouse (right)

• Mt Cook

• Looking south from the outdoor viewing platform

• First direct sunlight on Mt Cook

• First direct sunlight on Mt Cook

• Mt Sefton

• Mt Sefton

• Mt Sefton

• Mt Sefton

• Mt Sefton

• Mt Sefton

• Mt Sefton

• La Perouse

• La Perouse and Mt Cook

• Mt Cook

• Mt Cook

• A view of La Perouse and Mt Cook from our breakfast table. That is Doug's breakfast in the foreground.

• The Hermitage, our hotel at Aoraki Mount Cook National Park

• New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary did much of his training for his ascent of Mt Everest in this part of his native land.

• On the track to Tasman Glacier Terminal Lake

• The boat dock at the lake

• Our tour group at the lake

• Kathryn & Doug at the Tasman Glacier Terminal Lake

• Amelia, our guide, with Mt Cook and the Tasman Glacier in the background

• Amelia, our guide for the lake cruise and glacier tour

• Doug on board the boat

• Kathryn on board the boat

• Iceberg

• Mt Cook, iceberg, and reflection

• Iceberg and Mt Cook

• Iceberg

• Iceberg and reflection

• Iceberg

• A very blue iceberg

• Mt Cook and lateral moraine from Tasman Glacier Terminal Lake

• Mt Cook and lateral moraine

• Mt Cook

• Our companion boat on the tour. That is Ian, our South Island tour guide, in the center giving us a thumbs up. I hope that doesn't mean something different in New Zealand.

• Mt Cook and reflection

• Mt Cook and reflection

• Reflections

• Reflection

• Tasman Glacier terminus

• Tasman Glacier terminus

• Kathryn & Doug at the Tasman Glacier

• Headed back to the boat dock

• Landscape along the track from Tasman Glacier Terminal Lake back to the bus

• A speargrass commonly called Golden Spaniard on the Tasman Glacier track

• Landscape looking south along the track from Tasman Glacier Terminal Lake. The bushes in the foreground are native Matagouri, known informally as Wild Irishman.

• Matagouri

• The spiny Matagouri up close

• 'Foot shot' along the Tasman Glacier track

• On our way from Mt Cook to Queenstown we stopped at this viewpoint above Lake Pukaki. The tallest peaks in the background are called the Minarets. They are just to the east of Mt Cook.

• The Minarets and Lake Pukaki

• Kathryn & Doug at the same Lake Pukaki overlook