Milford Sound, Fiordland National Park

We had an amazing day today!! Milford Sound is not actually a Sound (which is carved out by a river), it's a Fjord as it was carved out during several Ice Ages.

We travelled with Cheeky Kiwi Tours and our driver and guide, Jeff was fantastic! Highly recommended! Jeff explained how the landscape ended up like it is, also with the Maori legends explanation and what it was like working on the Lord of the Rings trilogy with the aerial photography The other people we were travelling with were a mixture of Australian, New Zealand locals and Americans and we all got on famously! They were awesome!!

On the way up, we stopped at Mirror Lakes because of the way the Lakes reflect the towering snow capped mountains behind and Gunn Lake. Pure pristine beauty.

We had a lovely trip up and back, playing in the snow, looking at evidence of very recent snow avalanches, waterfalls, pristine rivers, the jade green of the Sound (indicating a lot of freshwater on the surface of the water) vs the darker blue of the Tasman Sea (indicating salt water).

We saw Kea's, Weka's, New Zealand Fur Seals basking in the sun, Fiordland Crested Penguins (third rarest in the world,) and Bottlenose Dolphins. We were very lucky to see all three 😄😄😄 What a magical day!!

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