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Milford Sound and Fiordland

'Don's favourite place on earth'

Pictures just can't do justice to this location, the most popular tourist destination in all of New Zealand. If you're looking for busloads of visitors, heaps of sandflies, and peaks that stretch from sea level to 1,700 metres, then you'll be keen to take a boat ride on Milford Sound, which is really a fiord, not a sound.

Hopefully these pictures will give you a taste ... taken by me, Don, or our friend Star Kane. Hover over the picture to find out more.

A rainbow that we saw driving through Fiordland, we saw the beginning AND the end, but no pots o' gold The dreaded, dark, dungeony Homer Tunnel
Driving toward Milford through Fiordland in early morning, the fog lends an ethereal quality to the area In Fiordland you see all sorts of terrains, here dry valleys blend into tall snowcapped mountains
Milford Sound near the boat launch On the fiord (sound)
One of Milford's many, many waterfalls Gorgeous rock formations along Milford Sound, rocks on which trees and their roots grow for tens of years, then with one rainfall are wiped away into the sound, leaving bare rock
One of Milford's rocky, tall peaks St Anne's Point, the farthest point the boats take you, onto the sea
Another beautiful waterfall
From St Anne's Point, looking back into the fiord A lighthouse on St Anne's Point, a welcome beacon for boaties, we're told
A gushing waterfall, where the boats get you right underneath the spray
The view into the sound The view into the sound
On the other side of the Homer Tunnel and Saddle Hiking toward Lake Marian
River hiking toward Lake Marian Mirror Lakes in Fiordland, so clear you can see straight to the lakefloor
Lake Gunn in Fiordland