Friday 13th Feb 2009
The leaflet said so. When we moved on to Queenstown we thought we'd missed the opportunity to see Milford Sound because of the grey day but Julie had picked up a handful of leaflets detailing various trips and singled out one that offered a flight from Queenstown to Milford Sound, then a cruise on the Sound, with a flight back making it a round trip. Expensive? Yes, but certainly worth it for a four and a half hour trip. So we debated... if the weather improved should we check if it was available the next morning? I expected it to be booked up; then we could move on to the West Coast and get some miles behind us. However, when I checked at the Camp office this morning there was a flight avaiable at 10.am, which gave us just 30 minutes to get ready. How could we not do it?
It's late and I don't have time to do it justice, so I'll end with a few words... Awesome! Stupendous! Incredibly beautiful! The highlight of any trip!!!
The leaflet said so. When we moved on to Queenstown we thought we'd missed the opportunity to see Milford Sound because of the grey day but Julie had picked up a handful of leaflets detailing various trips and singled out one that offered a flight from Queenstown to Milford Sound, then a cruise on the Sound, with a flight back making it a round trip. Expensive? Yes, but certainly worth it for a four and a half hour trip. So we debated... if the weather improved should we check if it was available the next morning? I expected it to be booked up; then we could move on to the West Coast and get some miles behind us. However, when I checked at the Camp office this morning there was a flight avaiable at 10.am, which gave us just 30 minutes to get ready. How could we not do it?
It's late and I don't have time to do it justice, so I'll end with a few words... Awesome! Stupendous! Incredibly beautiful! The highlight of any trip!!!
I didn't expect a big plane, but I must admit to being surprised at how 5 passengers and the pilot could squeeze into this shoebox with wings! I do enjoy flying, even when we soar skyward and drop a few feet in turbulence. The words of Peter Pan come top mind; "To die would be an awfully great adventure." Or as Julie commented... "Its a good day to die"... especially doing something so awesome! It makes living so precious!
This is a view of the open ground around a hill (called Paradise) at the end of the lake where they filmed parts of The Lord of the Rings. Then over the peaks and coming in over Milford Sound.
However, flying there was only part of the trip as we went by smallish boat all the way down to the Tasman Sea and back again, coming in close to this waterfall on the way! On the way we got close up to seals basking on the rocks and a large bottlenosed dolphin keeping up with the boat, just for fun I presume! Then we had the further thrill of flying back with cloud obscuring the mountain peaks!
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Love the photos.
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