Milford Sound

Today was an early start as we picked up by a taxi at 6.45am to take us 200 yards to the coach to take us on a 4 hour drive to Milford Sound.

Milford sound is a Fjord on the South island. The drive took us through some amazing countryside and passed lots of lakes and waterfalls. Eventually we arrived at Milford Sound and climbed aboard the ship for a 2 hour sail around the fjord. Everyone had warned us that this is the wettest place in New Zealand and that it rains nearly all the time. Well we had the exception, the sun shone and although it was cold the views we were amazing.

Again I went snap happy with the camera and took loads of picture I have just downloaded a few of them onto hear for you to sample. Again the pictures do not do it justice and can only say, come out and see for yourselves how amazing it is. The mountains are really snow capped, the waterfalls are as large as they look (and as cold and wet, we went right up close to one) and the scenery is just mouth openingly beautiful.

The only disappointment of the day was we were due to travel back by plane and fly over the fjords and lakes back to Queenstown but it was cancelled due to the weather (it didn't look bad to us) and so had to do the 4 hour journey back on the bus again. Still with the views it wasn't that much of a punishment.