Milford sound
Thursday, June 04, 2015
Te Anau, Southland, New Zealand
Te Anau, Southland, New Zealand
This morning our alarm was set for 5.45am to catch a very early coach to visit Milford Sound,one of New Zealand's must sees. It's a fjord with a beautiful 5 hour drive to get to it,including a traffic light controlled tunnel 1200 metres long and a steep gradient within and Avalanche portals at either end. The road also goes through a temperate rain forest that has managed to survive in this wintery wilderness. The drive from Queenstown runs along a huge lake 50k long and on the other side are a couple of sheep stations that are only accessible by boat but amazingly there is a stretch of preserved railway at the end of the lake from a line that ran down to the sea which brought all the goods and services to this area until they built a proper road in the middle of the last century. The rest of the line has been converted to a cycle network to help tourism and rejuvenate the remote villages by the old line. The road to the tunnel through to Milford was built by the unemployed during the depression and took to well after the second world war to be completed. The sea was flat calm and the sun shone all day. We were glad we had not gone to Dunedin before coming to queenstown as they had had the rainiest day since the 1920's with much flooding.
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