The second highest mountain in New Zealand photographed from Fox Glacier village, Westland.
An idyllic scene with spring flowers at Fox and the towering Southern Alps. The garden is owned by a helicopter pilot and is close the the airfield. A helicopter or ski plane flight up the glacier to land on the snow field at the top is a popular activity here.
Picture used on the 2003 Schering calendar
The Fox Glacier has advanced far enough in the last 5 years for its terminus to just show up above and to the right of the left hand gate post. This demonstrates how extraordinarily low the ice reaches. The farm land is on out-wash gravels from the Fox Glacier and River.
On the far wall of the Fox valley are the ridges shown on the giant panorama, taken from the side of the glacier. The ridges are for-shortened in the panorama and this view shows just how very high the ice reached in the valley. This makes it easier to understand how the farm was once the floor of the glacier, which reached the sea and joined with other glaciers to make a piedmont. Glacial terrace formations are visible on the ridges to the left.
