Milford Sounds

After taking delivery of our spaceship and making away with the agents whole bag of DVD's (when we were only meant to have two) it was straight off in search of the legendary Milford Sounds. Bizarrely although Queenstown is relatively close to Milford you have to drive in a 300km U shape to actually get to it.

As soon as we got to the Sounds it was obvious why people rave about it so much, the views were truly breathtaking (or maybe that was the cold).

We opted for the Encounter cruise (basically a longer cruise for only a few dollars more). It took us closer to the best parts of the Sound, mainly the waterfalls. There are only three waterfalls that remain year round but on a rainy day there can be as many as ten thousand of them.

The boat was quite small but there was still room to stand outside or to sit inside. Surprisingly Samantha spent all her time inside in the warm drinking tea looking at all the sights, whereas I was outside taking pictures and experiencing the waterfalls (except when I got too cold and went inside for free coffee).

Toward the end of the cruise we were dropped off for half an hour at the underwater observatory where you were able to see fish and coral only normally seen in the deep ocean. This is due to the two layers of water, the dark fresh water that runs off the mountains on top and the clear sea water that sits underneath giving a unique environment.
After our trip had ended we beamed back aboard our spaceship and zoomed off round the bottom of New Zealand.