Last week I spent a few days in Fiordland national park, and did an overnight cruise on Doubtful Sound (it is a fiord, but all the fiords here had been named sounds originally). There are 14 fiords in the park, doubtful sounds is the second longest. They are all pretty remote areas, not easily accessible, even Milford sound which is the only one directly accessible by road you have to pass through a 1.5 k tunnel to get to it, and in winter the road is often closed due to avalanches. Getting to doubtful sound is a bit of an adventure in itself, takes an hour by boat accross lake Manipori, then there is a road connecting the far end of the last to the fiord - this road only exists because there is a hydro
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