Well, we slept well in the dorm room with Carl and Jay last night and they were deep sleepers since Christine’s snoring didn’t wake them. Or my night trip to the bathroom. NZ$33/night for each of us. Hot showers, communal kitchen (an experience in itself with a middle aged man cooking himself some rice and chopped up sausages and a French group doing a seven course gourmet meal and talking in French just to show off) and a lounge area for everyone to mingle.
We took a cruise on the Sound for 2 1/2 hrs.and paid NZ$80 each and it was very good. We had a naturalist guide and so had lots of detailed information as we went along. We were pretty lucky to get some sunshine as well, this place gets about 30’ of rain per year; 220 days of rain; about 80 days of grey and then some sun. That’s not too bad, somewhere else on NZ gets 54’ of rain per year). It’s actually fortunate to be able to see it during or just after a rainfall since the sides of the Fjord are apparently just covered with thousands of madly rushing waterfalls.
This place was named by a Welshman but it’s actually a mistake-it’s a real Fjord and not a Sound since it’s v-shaped bottom (about 1,200’ deep) was actually carved by ice and not a river. (Hey, I paid to get told this stuff).
We stopped at Deer Creek for a river-side lunch on the way back to Te-Anau where we will spend the night at a Top Ten campground (NZ$46/night).
We would recommend making the Milford Sound visit and cruise but suggest staying in Te-Anau rather than Milford Sound. It’s a 2hr. drive each way and so an up and back trip and the cruise can easily be done in a day.
1st 2 photos are of our lunch stop at Deer Flat coming back down from Milford Sound to Te-Anau and the others are from the cruise on the Sound.
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