Saturday, 16 May 2009

A very wet Te Anau & Milford Sound

Saturday 16th May 2009

I leave Queenstown and I'm still thinking about the Bungy jump, the thought of doing another one is appealing but I reckon I'd be just as frightened. As I leave its chucking it down with ran, I arrive in Te Anau 3hrs later and its still chucking it down. So far I've been lucky enough with the weather but this is the worse I've seen it. Te Anau is a village by any standards but its that cloudy and wet you can't see from one end of the village to the other...and I'm planning on going to see Milford Sound!!! I've been told its just as good to see the place in the wet as it is when things are fine as there are no end of water falls, I'll just have to go and see for myself. The journey down to Milford from Te Anau is meant to be one of the most scenic road trips but with the weather the way it is hard to believe it. Even when I arrive in Milford it hasn't let up but once we get out on the water its like it doesn't matter anymore. Sure enough there are no end of water falls coming down from all the surrounding hills and the majority of them are all snow capped. The two hour journey doesn't seem all that bad after all.

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