Milford Sound 🏔

An earlier morning than usual for us, as we were up and out, driving to Milford Sound for our cruise at 10:45am.

The drive to the port was gorgeous, looking at the hundreds of snow capped mountains, which were topped up with fresh snow landing as we were driving past.

Before we knew it, we had safely made it to the port, checked in, and were boarding the boat. Although we only saw a few waterfalls due to a lack of rainfall, the views were beautiful. Who knew that waterfalls could be so tall!

After we'd soaked up the sights, we headed to the cafe for some lunch as we wanted to continue with Callum's new life moto 'a pie a day keeps the doctor away'.

We had a look through our itinerary and decided that we would squeeze in a hike today to save us a whole day tomorrow. That being said, we made our way to Lake Marian, for what we thought was an easy 6km walk around a lake.

It didn't take long before it dawned on us that this was no easy 6km walk. This was a full blown uphill hike, consisting of 10000's of loose rocks and tree roots coming out from everywhere. I'd confidently say that both of us rolled our ankles and stubbed our toes at least 1 thousand times each.

After 1.5 hours of uphill hell, we made it to the lake, and all our worries and pain disappeared. It was gorgeous! The next problem... getting back down.

Thankfull the downhill hike was a lot quicker than the uphill. However, we did cop some nasty ankle rolls and a booboo to Callum's right knee!

We made it to solid ground and made our way to the campsite for the night, which was a hefty 3 hours away. The roads were pretty daunting at night, but thankfully, we didn't have to worry about any kangaroos or koala's in the road this time around!

We arrived in Kingston, parked up, made some dinner and then were out like a light!En savoir plus