This morning we woke up to a WOW - not only was the view amazing across Te Anau lake but the weather was fantastic.....
We had decided to drive the 100km to Milford Sound ourselves and then take a boat. We left the camp site at about 8:45 which was a real achievement for us!!
However we had not had breakfast so about an hour later we pulled over.....
we are really getting into this camping lark .....
Lake Te Anau looked amazing this morning
Now we had to find a new best friend for fiordland......there is what Captain Cook called 'a mischievous inhabitant' called the Sandfly. We have a few bites and they are not great....so I am covered in ....
it seems to be working but is pretty lethal stuff.
The route up to Milford Sound was magnificent following a U shaped glacial valley - Eglington
before reaching the distant mountains. We had to pass through the Homer tunnel
to reach the mountains on the other side. The Homer tunnel took 20 years to complete and is 1.2km long - it is not reinforced at all and is often closed if there is a risk of an avalanche. In 1953 Milford Sound finally became accessible by road....Captain Cook had not seen the entrance to the sound from the Tasmanian Sea and is one of the few places he is not credited with discovering! Milford Sound was named by Captain John Grono who was one of the first Europeans to visit the area - he named it after Milford Haven in Wales.
The views from the van as we approached Milford Sound were incredible.....you know I am going to run out of adjectives for today - I also ran out of camera battery but that was later.
And then we finally turned the corner and arrived at the Sound........
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