Doubtful Sound I

Shortly after 9 o’clock, we reached Doubtful Sound and our boat, the Tasman Explorer for our Doubtful Sound Cruise.
And what should I say, all the clouds are gone!!!! 🤩

It’s still pretty cold but the weather can’t be better!

We are only 41 people on the cruise today, plus our bus driver Scott and our skipper John-O.
So it’s a really nice small group and we have a lot of space on the boat to move around and get nice pictures.
Really nice!

Coffee, Tea, Cappuccino and Hot Chocolate are for free and everyone was straight getting a hot drink to warm up a little bit from inside!
After a short while, our skipper spotted some Bottlenose Dolphins!
They were pretty far away from us, playing around. In Doubtful Sound, boats are not allowed to approach the dolphins. There is a group of Bottlenose Dolphins living in the Sound ad they are protected. So we could only slow down, watch them playing around from a distance as hope they maybe gonna come a little bit closer. But they, unfortunately, did not. But we saw them 🤗

As the weather is so good we could drive out from the sound into the ocean and turn around there and go back on the other side of the island the is in front of the sound! They told us, that yesterday this was not possible because it was to rough out on the ocean.

So I really, really lucky to book the trip for today 😍🤗

While we were cruising back everyone was enjoying the scenery and as it was getting warmer and warmer it was really nice to stand outside in the top deck!
We saw some seals lying around on the rocks and one was playing around in the water, but all too far away for a nice picture.

And then we saw some more dolphins 😍
But also this time they where to far away to take a picture from them, but it's was so nice to watch them jump around and having a good time.

After 2 1/2 hours filled with awesome scenery and a lot of information we returned to the harbor and had to leave the boat and jump back onto the bus.
Scott promised us some nice photo stops on the way back as we are not so much in a hurry now.Baca lagi