For the last leg of my trip, I continued up the west coast to Fox and Franz Josef glaciers.   As always, the scenery was stunning!   High mountain peaks covered in snow, brilliant blue glacier lakes, and plenty of dense forests.   I stopped at a few waterfalls, did a short hike, and had a nice picnic lunch.   There had been a terrible storm in the area and it washed out the only bridge on the main road, which was just before the tiny town of Franz Josef Glacier, where I wanted to stay.   They completed a temp bridge a few days before I arrived and construction crews were racing to build a proper bridge.   The west coast is sparsely populated, and this is the only road connecting the north and the south.     My first adventure was a hike around Lake Matheson and it was as stunning as I had heard.   There were a few stops on the trail where Mt Cook and Mt Tasman were perfectly reflected in the lake.   Even though there was a bit of...