Huge day. Franz Joseph Glacier and on to Haast through rain as big as any back home. Pounding on the roof of the lodge, you can't hear anything else. Time to snuggle in for the night. Today Princess Tahlia was looking at the detail rather than the big picture, and took some lovely shots of fungus and rock cairns.

Avoid the Hard Antler Inn in Haast unless you want to see a gruesome collection of antlers with skull-bones attached. Forecast is for more heavy rain, so we will make lots of progress on our books, the times table and map poring...