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Published: December 17th 2008
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…..Shotover was good fun, almost ended up on a boat full of Chinese tourist, I thought to myself I have been in enough Chinese photos. I was very happy that I had to pay only the child price as I did not think it was worth anymore than that, maybe my adrenaline thresholds are a bit high…the Para-flight was lovely too, not scary, the views were amazing on such a lovely sunny day. Maybe you think I am a bit crazy, but then hey what is new… I made up my mind I will try to make it to Milford Sounds by the same night… 300km it is doable...
As I was leaving Queenstown the sun was just so lovely and the views were amazing… once I got closer to Fiordland National Park I knew I made the right choice by selecting this as the main reason to come to South Island …. Absolutely astonishing, amazing, I felt dwarfed compared to the size of these mountains, I just could not believe such place existed…. the rivers where so blue and clear, the mountains had snow on their peaks… wow, wow, wow and again wow, no word or even photos come close to what an amazing place this is… it must be one of the special places left in the world… I felt like Alice in wonderland and just could not take the grin off my face… if I did not have ears I would have smile around my whole head…
On the way there I gave a lift to Rose and her husband, when I pulled over Rose surprised me with her question ‘I have got a husband is it a problem’… No ?!... why would it be.. as it turned out they were trying to get on an over night boat in Milford Sound, I told them I was thinking of doing the day trip, with Real Journey’s Wanderer as advised by the guy on the Para-flight boat… we got there on time… the boat was leaving at 4.30… well what the hell I might as well go on it… cool in the morning jet ride, Para-flight, tonight cruise, that is what I call exhilarating day…
Wow I have a double bed for myself :o) clean sheets and they smell lovely…. Hot shower that I don’t have to rush out off, and a cooked meal… wow, wow, life is so great… we had the safety briefing, then lovely hot roast tomato and pepper soup, delicious….the view of the Sounds breathtaking. Next we could go kayaking or jet boat in the Sounds, my choice was a kayak… I paddled away from the boat and everyone… no sound… so peaceful and look there is a penguin in water… I just felt so happy… this will be one of the moments I will never forget…I also saw a penguin on the shore… so small and cute…DINNER… roast lamp … YUMIE, and desert too, I felt so spoilt, I could not move after the meal…
The stars were out too, and even though it was really cold, it did not bother me at all.. I had one of the most amazing days ever…
Early night, light go off at 10.30, breakfast will be served at 7 am…
…Shotover byla docela prca, malem jsem byla na lodi plne cinskych turistu, ale myslim si, ze jsem uz na hodne cinskych fotkach… Byla jsem docela rada, ze jsem nemusela platit plnou cenu, ponevadz si nemyslim, ze to za vice stoji. Mozna muj adrenalilnovy prah je prilis vysoko… Para-let byl pekny, nebala jsem se, nebylo ceho. Vyhled stal za to, slunicko krasne svitilo, na vrskach hor byl snih… parada.
Mozna jsem blazen, ale co je noveho, 300km do Mildford Sound to se da, ne?
Kdyz jsem odjizdela s Queenstown, slunicko svitilo, a ta krajina byla nadherna…kdyz jsem se priblizila k Fiordland Narodnimu Parku, vedela jsem, ze me odhodlani videt Mildford Sounds bylo spravne rozhodnuti…. Nepopsatelna nadhera, pripadla jsem si jako trpaslik v porovnani s temi horami. Nemohla jsem tomu verit, ze takoveto misto existuje, raj na zemi… reky byly nesktutecne morde a ciste, hory mely zasnezene vrsky, byla jsem jak Alenka v risi divu, a kdybych nemela usi tak se asi uculuji kolem cele hlavy… slova nebo fotky nezastihnou jaka je tady nadherna priroda… to se musi videt na vlastni oci…
Vyzvedla jsem dva baturkare, kdyz jsem zastavila, docela me prekvapila Rose z jeji otazkou: “Mam sebou manzela, vadi to?”…’Ne!?’, proc by to melo vadit.. Rose a XX se snazili dostat na lod, ktera plula pres noc v Mildford Sounds. Rekla jsem jim, ze jsem premyslela nad dennim vyletem s “Real Journey’s Wanderer” coz me poradil typek co ridil lod na Para-letu… dorazila jsem v cas… lod odjizdela v 4.30… hmmm, no co uz, jsem tu, tak proc ne… a byla jsem na lodi. Tomu rikam den plny zazitku, rano jizda na motorove lodi a Para-let a vecere na lodi…
Nemuzu tomu verit, mam celou kabinu pro sebe, letiste, ciste povleceni, rucnik.. horka sprcha, s ktere nemusim spechat, vecere na me ceka… parada, co vic potrebuji ke stesti…. VYHLED…nepopsatelna krasa, pripadala jsem si jako male dite v cukrarne. Mela jsem na vyber mezi kajakem a nebo motorovym clunem, vzhledem k tomu, ze jsem jizdu na motorovem clunu mela dnes zasebou, vybrala jsem si kajak. Ten klid, odpadlovala jsem ode vsech a nemohla jsem tomu verit, tento moment bude jeden ze zazitku, na ktery nezapomenu… a hele tucnak… a dalsiho jsem videla na brehu, takovy malusky :o)
VECERE…. Pecene jehnatko… MNAM…. a desert…..to jsem se ale nacpala. Hele hvezdicky… sice byla zima, ale to me vubec nevadilo… tento den byl jeden z nejlepsich dnu v mem zivote…
Brzo na kute, elektrika se vypina v 10.30 a snidane je 7 rano….
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