Sunday, January 17, 2016

Fiordland National Park

So many photos shot on yesterday's outing, it was hard to narrow it down, but here are a few good contenders.
We drove up to Piopiotahi (Milford Sound) and found ourselves on a grockle boat, and apparently were very lucky to have the beautiful weather. The guide was telling everyone that it's usually raining. They get 200+ days of rain every year.
This is just one of several waterfalls we saw. Many are temporary (the ones we didn't see) and were not there because of the gorgeous weather, however you could easily see their tracks down the mountains.

We did cruise out of the fiord onto the Tasman Sea for just a bit. The guide said that if we were to continue in that direction, in about 4 days we could come to a large, very dry land mass that is home to many, many different marsupials and interestingly, very few rugby trophies.

We were escorted by bottle nose dolphins coming back. They played in our wake for a bit and I got some video of that, but I can't upload it yet with the internet speed we have here. Hopefully next week in Dunedin, I'll be able to.

After the cruise, we stopped many times on roadside pull-offs to try to take it all in. (not sure it's possible to take it all in).

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