A 'Sound' Drive...

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May 22nd 2006

Published: May 30th 2006

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Nick and Ally

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A beautiful trip to Milford Sound

After a few big nights out in Queenstown we (Ally, Tom, George and I) decided to rent out a car, apparently the drive from Te Anau to Milford Sound is one of the best in the world! ...it was!!

It took three hours to reach Te Anau, this is probably the furthest South we'll ever go. It was a beautiful day and the mountainous scenery was stunning. We stayed in a great hostel near lake Te Anau, from here we woke up the next day and headed towards Milford Sound - the drive through snowwy mountains, gorges, valleys, creeks, lakes, forest,etc.. was proper nice!

Milford Sound is the most visited of all New Zealands' Southland fiords, the calm 22km long fiord is surrounded by beautiful scuffed cliffs & peaks. It rains up to 6 meters a year..and it rained whilst we were there too! Milford Sound has a very pre-historic atmosphere, just round the corner was Chasm Walk: here the Claddau river plunges through eroded boulders in a narrow chasm, the rock formations where cool, and so were the waterfalls!

On the way back we played 'Who am I' for three

Milford Sound..

hours...and yes..the team managed to guess my Nicholas Whitchal!! (..not so good at Ben Fogal..or..the Fogalmeister ay guy!!)

Had a wicked day!

Love

Nickoli Von Stroffen & Albert Einstein

xxxx

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