{"id":7896,"date":"2024-03-27T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T08:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myblogary.com\/?p=7896"},"modified":"2024-03-31T22:28:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T09:28:20","slug":"look-deep-into-nature-and-then-you-will-understand-everything-better-albert-einstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myblogary.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/27\/look-deep-into-nature-and-then-you-will-understand-everything-better-albert-einstein\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLook deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.\u201d Albert Einstein"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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We had another wild night of stormy weather. I\u2019m not used to weather waking me up in the middle of the night. When snow falls in Denver, it\u2019s quiet!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rain had stopped, but it was really windy when we woke up. We had a slow start to the morning, ate breakfast and debated what to do with our day. We walked to the kayak shop in town and got surprisingly good coffee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Needing more of an outing, we decided to take a drive to Lake Matheson<\/a>, about an hour drive back up the windy mountain road outside the town of Fox Glacier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lake Matheson was formed about 14,000 years ago when Fox Glacier retreated from its advance towards the sea, leaving a depression that filled with water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It is named for Murdoch Matheson, a cattle farmer during the 1870s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The walk around the glacial lake was an easy three miles through the rainforest with viewing spots along the way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On a clear and still day with no wind, the views of Mt. Cook and Mt. Tasman reflected on the brown lake are said to be breathtaking. On a partly cloudy and windy day, not so much. We waited at the viewing point for a while, hoping the clouds would move along. There were blue skies showing over the lake, but not the glacier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We ate lunch and waited some more. We saw a long finned native eel and were silently annoyed with people feeding it pieces of bread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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