Milford Sound

 Mirror Lake on the way to Milford Sound

 View from coach

 All these pictures are on our journey around the beautiful,  peaceful Milford Sound.

We had a wonderful trip along the Milford sound road and our coach driver (as Irish as they come!) was really very good.  The coach journey took 2.45hrs because we stopped a lot on the way to get photos.  We arrived at the Milford Sound and began our boat trip.  The boat was the one pictured in the guide book and was one of the smallest, but still we had plenty of room to move around.  The weather had closed in a bit, but that made the scenery all the more dramatic.  Because of the heavy rain the day before we were able to see lots of waterfalls. We were so impressed with the journey that we bought a dvd to bring home because we could not get all the beauty on our camera.  The trip lasted about 2.15hrs and took us into many bays, even right up to one of the permanent waterfalls, to get wet...We saw a pod of dolphins and also fur seals and we were all very lucky to see a penguin (yes just one) they are very rare and do not show themselves very often. Unfortunately by the time everyone had got their cameras ready it had disappeared.

Our return journey was a lot quicker because we did not stop on the way back and some of the passengers had travelled from Queenstown and would not arrive back until 7.30.  A very long day for them.  Tomorrow we are off on another jet boat.  We loved the first one so we are having another trip.  Hopefully we will not be going on the same type of road as the last one...