It is an amazing experience to go out on a tiny boat on the Tasman Glacier lake. It is next to New Zealand's highest mountain
3 724 m altitude,You float on the milky water (milky because of the “glacier flour”). The mountain rises high above you and on the lake some icebergs float. They are not gigantic, like the one that sunk Titanic, but they are still impressive.
3 724 m altitude,You float on the milky water (milky because of the “glacier flour”). The mountain rises high above you and on the lake some icebergs float. They are not gigantic, like the one that sunk Titanic, but they are still impressive.
It is also a real-life illustration of global warming. The edge of the actual glacier has receded 500 metres in five years.
The ice that you can see in the lake is from snow that fell on the top of the mountain about 500 years ago. Pick up a small piece of ice from the lake and bring it back to the hotel bar and you can have a Gin & Tonic with 500 year old ice! That's quite an extraordinary thing.
