Milford Sounds

First night in Te Anau was a hard one.

• First ...
  ... there were no blankets or towels in our room, because it was an Holiday Park - that means actually u have to bring with all your own stuff.
  
• Second....
  ... the bed were so weak and u could feel each single spring of mattress. 

Evening before, we met 3 nice and funny Dutch men, who sponsored free beer. Thanks guys, we had a great evening.

Nevertheless we had to get up early morning, because we booked a boat trip in fjordland of Milford Sounds. Bus picked us up at 7:30am at hotel reception. The ride to Milford Sounds took about 2 hours with a few stops at wonderfull places of landscape along the rode. There was a stop at the mirror lakes, or the mountainpass we had to pass.

Mirror Lakes

mountain pass

Arriving in Milford We walked directly on the big three-master. But we did not hoist the sail but gone pushed by engine.

Milford Mariner

It was a wonderfull and hot day, but on boat it was really windy so we packed ourselves into warm windproteting clothes. On tour through the fjords we saw dolphins, seals beautiful landscape and waterfalls.

After 2 1/2 hours we returned to harbour and got back to bus. On way back to Te Anau we stopped again at several lovely and beautiful places.

The Chasm

Due to the fact it was a really hot day and short sleepless night, Flora soon fall asleep on the busride. Well, now we need a good chiropractor to fix her neck, because at her "power naps" she behaved like a slow-motion headbanging rockstar :-D Back at hotel, we had a short walk to supermarket and soon fall asleep after a long day.

Now days of extreme speed entertainment has gone, and we look forward to practise in sightseeing in Dunedin and Auckland too.