Milford Sound
One of NZ’s biggest tourists attractions, Milford Sound receives about half a million visitors each year. Some 14,000 arrive by foot (tramping) and the remainder either via bus tour or camper like us. There is only one road in and out and around 600k from the main tourist highway.
Milford receives the largest rainfall in the whole of NZ, up to 9 meters a year. We took a four hour tour by boat around the area. Just before we arrived and while we were there it was pelting which wasn’t so nice but created a spectacular deluge of cascading waterfalls all along the trip. We were expecting to see seals, dolphins and penguins but at times it was too dangerous to step out on deck to look and in the end we saw absolutely nout. We really enjoyed the trip but it was damn expensive to get there and the tour.
Anybody out there that loves waterfalls, this is your mecca.
