they don't want you to try and hike to the glacier yourself
this is as far as we were supposed to go, and there was 0 view of the glacier
so I crossed the ropes and went towards the river and got a view of it at least
yeah, we should have gone up that trail if it weren't for the shuttle supposed to pick us up
but zooming out shows that I was a bit far from it still
on the plus side waterfalls were flowing
somehow the mountain reflection in the lake thing didn't quite work out
even later, a clear improvement
Ideally our itinerary should have had a day of buffer between our milford track hike in Queenstown that we couldn't move, and this, but it didn't so we had to leave for Queentown the next morning as the weather was improving and without being able to do our heli hike the following afternoon under nice weather. That really blows considering that the glacier was supposed to be a highlight of our trip :(
Such is life....