Thursday 19th April. Milford Sound

Wow, wow, wow and wow!  The scenery on this two hour drive from Te Anau to Milford Sound is really out of this world, nothing like I have ever seen before.  Our photos are just not worthy as you really cannot appreciate the scale of things. Huge, huge mountains, mysterious moss covered beech forests, and a myriad of glacier blue pebbly rivers. It all just blew me away. I nearly ran off the road several times because I couldn’t take my eyes of the scenery.  We drove through Homer tunnel, which runs through a large mountain to get through to milford, almost 2 km long.  Amazing. 

The "Chully Bun" on tour.

Homer Tunnel

We then boarded our cruise to travel across the sound,which is, even at the very edge, over 300m deep.  Very steep mountains, over 1500m dropping straight into the sound, speccy.  We put on our raincoats as the captain steered the ship straight into one of the waterfalls that cascade down the cliff face into the sound.  Alot of fun.  





We stopped off to do a walk at the Mirror Lakes , and mysterious mossy beech forests with wild rivers running through on the way back.  Again, we cant help but think of Lord of the Rings. We actually started scaring ourselves talking about Orcs!

Then a bottle of champas, pizza, and a culinary experience of a beer battered bluff oyster (really a taste sensation!) Bluff oysters are at least double the size of  a big aussie oyster.  Good for us oyster lovers, a real nightmare for those that hate them!  Now a nice sleep in before we head for Queenstown tomorrow.   Hope you are all well.  I think I am finally over my cold and into holiday mode!