We'd been told to get going up to Milford Sound early to prevent being stuck behind all the tour coaches, so as soon as the sun was rising we looked out of the window to see beautiful blue sky and then promptly fell back asleep. At a more reasonable hour, still early, we headed on the 2hr scenic drive through the mountains, passing beautiful lakes and many many tourist coaches. On reaching the port where the cruises leave from it was pretty nippy so we togged ourselves up with our wooly hats and gloves and headed to find a cruise. We basically got on the next cruise that was leaving and only had to wait about 20 mins and we were only sharing our boat with a handfull of tourists, mainly japanese. As we headed
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