Millford
Millford sound deserves it’s own post, it was the bit of NZ that I was really interested in from the start — I would have liked a week to peruse the area, but that’s tricky — there is always walking tracks, but doing that in a fjord is one way to quickly give your self really sore feet.
This is a really stunning fjord, similar to some of the best found in norway, it was excavated by a mother of a glacier in the ice age, and is now filled with sea water half way up.
We joined a bus that had just come down from queenstown, so even got a long lie. The bus took the rather long trip into fjordland, and through the Homer tunnel, which is a really impressive and remarkably old feat of engineering. Kiwi Ex had managed to negotiate a 2 hour cruse to the mouth of the fjord and back, with a free bufet meal included — the meal was more of a pain than anything, you were eating when you should be looking at scenery, although the route in and out was the same.
I decided that I had to do somthing to mitigate the lack of my only wide lens for somthing as mamoth as millford, so my solution was panoramic images, I have good software for stiching them, but not with me. This means that I took a stackload of images, none of which are really usefull untill I get home.
In the middle of the boat trip we stopped by an underwater observatory — think floating inverted lighthouse.
So The pics that are usable: