Franz Josef Glacier is steep and narrow, shaped like a funnel.
For those taking a walk to the face of the glacier it is an impressive environment of
caves, seracs and crevasses.
The glacier ice moves down by sliding over rock and is lubricated by the water flowing beneath the glacier.
The ice closer to the surface splits and cracks forming crevasses to depths of 20-30m
Julie and Jonathan call their Bed and Breakfast Ribbonwood Retreat after the Ribbonwood tree that grows near their home. Once common these trees are now in decline. We have planted Ribbonwoods and many other trees to attract native birds back to our garden. Maori Proverb: If you cut the heart of the flax bush, where will the bellbird sing?
Links
- Ribbonwood Website
- Ecuador and Galapagos Islands 2019
- Italy and Croatia 2018
- Central America 2017
- Western Australia 2016
- Sri Lanka 2015
- 2013 travels to SE Asia
- 2011 Tuscanny Travels and Vietnam Ventures
- 2010 travels home teaching in Cairo.
- Julie living and working in Egypt 2010
- Julie's teaching and life in Jordan stint 2009
- Julie living and working in Japan 2008
- New Zealand’s most endangered kiwi species on the road to recovery.
- New Zealand Birds
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