So the drive started out fine, a little rain here and there but the rain really started to pick up about 40km before my destination. I could also see the destruction from the storm from a few days earlier, the trees even though they had been cleared from the roads where everywhere and as I got closer to Franz Josef you could see the power lines were down. I began to get a little paranoid about the power lines on a ground and the huge puddles and me in my little pink metal car.
Funny as it sounds I didn't care a bit when my accommodation told me that there was no power and it had been out for a couple of days already, all I wanted was a dry place to rest. (It was so wet that I had to leave my luggage in the car).
Good news power was restored later that evening, yeah heat and the drying all of my wet gear can begin.
It's funny the little things you forget, in the early evening the air raid siren went off, I got a little confused, after travelling to places like Thailand and other island nations my first instinct was tsunami but remembering from my childhood this is the call out sound for the fire volunteers. Phew I did notice that a few other guest popped their heads out the door to also see what was going on.
Sunday April 20, 2014
It was nice waking up to the sounds of the native birds, I manage to take a quick trip to the glacier between breaks in the rain.
In the afternoon I decided that I didn't want to be stuck inside all day so I covered myself and all of my camera gear with plastic and went for a walk alone on of the walking tracks. I got drenched but it was a nice walk.
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