Milford Sound

After the adrenaline rush from the canyon swing we went out in Queenstown one last time. Winnie's is the place to end up, which is what happened that evening, after we played pool with people from the hostel in a bar first.

We picked up our campervan the next day, stocked up with food and drove to Milford Sound. The drive was about five hours, although it went by quite quickly. The campervan is an automatic, which is a luxury- I feel lazy not driving a manual! We passed through a town called Te Anau. It's pretty small and quiet, like a lot of places in New Zealand. We continued on to Milford Sound after a short stop there. The drive was quite daunting; we drove through fog and rain up winding roads and snow peaked mountains, until we got to the highly anticipated Homer Tunnel which we'd heard about through word of mouth. The cliff face was so steep and the tunnel appeared so small from a distance. The tunnel is one way and so traffic flows through in 15 minute intervals each way. Once we got through the tunnel we descended down the valley to Milford Sound where we stayed in a place called Milford Sound Lodge. We were so exhausted. We cooked and spent the first night in our campervan. It was quite cosy and we slept really well. The following day we did a walk up to Key Summit which was nice!

We woke up at 6am the following morning and went on Rosco's kayaks along the river. We did the 'morning glory' trip. Our guide was really good fun and we kayaked 18km down to the Tasman sea. We saw a couple of large waterfalls, a penguin and loads of seals; one of which decided to follow us the whole journey, lasting about 4 hours. The scenery was so beautiful, I really liked it there!