Milford Sound

The drive from Te Anua to Milford was very nice with lush landscape. The campsite at Milford was full so we stopped at a council run campsite ( no faculties but cheap!) at Lake Gunn. It's the last campsite before Milford so is the busiest but also the nicest! We rocked up at 7.30pm. It was busy but we found a spot overlooking the lake and mountains. It was actually the best spot! We realised later that we were parked on a road and partially blocking people in, never mind we had a good view!

The next day we did the remaining km to Milford. Our cruise started at 9.15. The area was pretty cool. Our boat took us past a few famous sights including a waterfall (Stirling falls) that was used in the film Wolverine (not seen it either!). We saw some more seals lazying on some rocks and on the way back a few bottlenose dolphins swam right next to the boat for about 15 minutes. You could see how playful they are with each other it was so funny!

Milford was a bit out of the way (400km!) but well worth it.

We left Milford after the cruise and headed to the east coast to get away from the annoying sand flies. When we got to Gore, we started our drive along the 'President highway' which runs from Gore to Clinton. We decided that was pretty sad of NZ to name such a road!

On that subject they run out of names when it comes to naming things or are not very imaginative. We've driven down quite a few 'high streets'. If there's a lake at the bottom of the road it's called 'lake road'. They also name all of there creeks even if the name is ' Creek No. 45'!

We did stick a video on the end of this one to try. You have to click on the photos which then opens picassa. Its the last one and should play automatically!