21 October, 2022

Haupapa Tasman Lake, glacier, and ice bergs

The short walk from the carpark to the Tasman Lake lookout is steep, and has about 300 steps to climb up.

Those grey cliffs around the edge of the lake are 100+ m  high. The Haupapa Tasman glacier is at the end of the lake. There are also ice bergs in the lake, that have broken off the glacier.

Haupapa Tasman glacier.  Murchison glacier goes off into the right sided valley.
Looking down the Tasman river valley.  This was carved by the glacier over hundred of thousands of years.
About a half hour walk takes us to the start of the Tasman river, and up close to some icebergs.





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