We are so fortunate! If you've been to Milford Sound, you know how rare a cloudless, sunny, warm day is there (13 metres of rain over 200+ days of rain) ...yesterday we made a last minute booking to go - and we got a flawless day. Okay, almost flawless; Wayne may be in some trouble for sullying the pristine waters of Milford Sound when his hat flew off into the water on the boat ride, and in a World Heritage Site, but don't tell anyone it was his, okay?
This was an all-day trip. The bus picked us up just after 7:00 am and we got home about 12 hours later. I was a little hesitant, considering the long bus ride, but it was a pleasure to enjoy the amazing scenery, and the driver had a great, informative spiel going as we flew along, educating us about a lot of things we didn't even know we should be wondering about! Such as, humans have been in New Zealand for only about a thousand years, the difference between a fjord and a sound - we should all be calling it Milford Fjord - and telling us some Maori legends. Plus, it is easier to snooze in a bus seat than on a bicycle seat! Amazing restful rest day, now we begin a 6 day stretch to the finish in Bluff!
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