The hills are alive with the Sound of Milford
By this dreadful pun you might have guessed we are really tired.
we just got back from the, yet again that word, 'beautiful' Milford Sound - we've used this word so much so we dug into the thesaurus for some help - please pick your own adjective from the list:
admirable, alluring, angelic, appealing, beauteous, bewitching, charming, classy, comely, cute, dazzling, delicate, delightful, divine, elegant, enticing, excellent, exquisite, fair, fascinating, fine, foxy, good-looking, gorgeous, graceful, grand, handsome, ideal, lovely, magnificent, marvelous, nice, pleasing, pretty, pulchritudinous, radiant, ravishing, refined, resplendent, shapely, sightly, splendid, statuesque, stunning, sublime, superb, symmetrical, taking, well-formed, wonderful...
Even the road to this fiord is beautiful. The whole place looks like one giant carefully manicured Japanese garden. The rocks seemed to be placed by design, trees are giant bonsai trees and the ferns, the moss, the rivers are just perfect.
Milford Sound is not a sound but a fiord (or for the Norweigens among you, a fjord). Needless to say we were confused. Ok girls here is the science bit: Unlike a sound, a fiord is made by a glacier or in this case by five or six of them. We took a boat up this fiord through the steep cliff faces of the majestic mountains overrun by little waterfalls.
On our way back we stopped at the worlds only floating underwater (10m under) observatory where we saw white black coral, umpf? They call it black coral but it's really white. As if we haven't been confused enough by now! We also saw fishes multiplying hehe:) It was wicked being the one stuck inside the fishtank.
Tired and overwhelmed we headed home for a nice cold beer... on which subject we better hurry now.
2 Comments:
Hope you're heading down towards Dunedin at the very Southern tip. Check out the Otago Peninsula. The only breeding ground for Albatross in the World. They are truly awesome birds. Also the penguins who nest up on the side of the sand dunes by the beach. Take a day. It's worth it. Great fun reading the blog and re-living the experience.
Best,
Calvin
What are the chances. Here we are sitting in a internet cafe in the pleasant city of Dunedin after driving through the Southern Scenic Route. so pretty. We are thinking about checking out the penguins (and maybe even the albatross - thanks for the tip. Although one of us keeps thinking of the Monty Python sketch) before we head off to Mt Cook and the wierdly coloured lakes. Hope you both are well and it is nice to hear from you. N&R
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