Today we visited New Zealand’s most famous fjord, Milford Sound. The name of Milford Sound, is actually wrong since it is a fjord, the difference being that a fjord is shaped by a glacier and met by the ocean while a sound when the ocean comes in.
We did our trip to Milford Sound as part of a tour group so we had more time to enjoy the impressive scenery, and not have the stress of driving through roads with avalanche warnings and the very narrow Homer Tunnel. Along the way we made some rain-filled stops like at Mirror Lake.
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While at first we were a bit disappointed by the rain, the effect the rain had on the surrounding mountains was truly incredible. It was as if the mountains were crying waterfalls, we saw hundreds of them, both from the bus and from the boat. The rain had also made all the larger waterfalls more powerful and our boat cruise went right up to them!
Back at Te Anau we visited a bird park and were given a show by the Kea bird.
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