Milford Sound

I hate to admit it but Monday I finally got around to really straightening up things in our flat.  When we got back from Queenstown we immediately left for Cebu and so that which I brought back was kind of put in a corner.  We don't have near the number of corners that we have in Provo so it was rather important that I take task in hand and put those things away.  I was surprised when I saw some of the things that I had.  Each tourist place we went they would take our picture and then try to sell it back to us.  We were suckers and bought them.  In the packet with the picture we bought at Milford Sound was a CD of lovely pictures that were intended to be downloaded and printed etc so over the next while I will be including some of those photos.  The ones in this post I took.

It was explained to us that Milford Sound should really be called Milford Fiord.  A sound was created by an ancient river that cut through the land to the ocean and created a V-shaped valley.  A fiord was created by moving ice--glacier--during the ice age that cut a U-shaped valley to the sea.  Therefore, in reality Milford is a fiord but I guess someone long ago misnamed it or they just liked the way sound rolled off of the tongue. It is a water-outlet to the  Tasman Sea which is between New Zealand and Australia.  There is a small island off of the coast of Australia  called Tasmania and that is where the tasmanian devil comes from!

When we finally got to the sound we had been on and off the bus for about 5 hours.  It has been a very pleasant and exciting ride but it was nice to get up and walk about and be in the fresh air.  We boarded a small cruise ship, probably could hold 150 people in all, and set out.

This last photo is coming back into the dock.  In the distance you can see kayaks.  I guess that is another way to see it.

It was such a neat day.  I did not even mind being on a boat! It was warm and the water was calm and we were with great friends!  What more could you ask for?