Day 10 – We head to Milford Sound in Fiordland National Park for a boat ride through the fiord with breathtaking scenery. Luck and sunshine was with us (it’s in a rain forest with annual rainfall of 22 feet) as we first stopped at Mirror Lake on the way, before meeting up with a convoy.

Sections of the only road to Milford Sound were one lane following cyclone damage a few weeks earlier.  There was terrible flooding and several hundred people trapped up there.  So only buses and 12+ passenger vehicles were allowed in the convoy. We were one of the first vehicles in line, so we had a bit of a wait until the line was complete and we could start up.

I could have spent several days here, in this place called the pot of gold at the end of the road. My sketches don’t do it justice, but you may be able to infer by the quantity, just how much I was enchanted with this place.

Milford Sound employee.

Milford Sound sketches 1.

Milford Sound sketches 2.

Milford Sound sketches 3