Third day. We start the day in Te Anau after an after dark drive from Queenstown, the night prior. From here it's an early start to make our cruise departure at Milford Sound at 11:30am.
The road from Te Anau to Milford Sound is a remarkable trip. The road meanders along the edge of Fiordland finishing with a crawl into and through the foreboding mountains. Sights include white water rivers, glass flat lakes, mist filled valleys, and impassably jagged mountains. The road only manages to pass these mountains through a tunnel borred straight through the side of a mountain's cliff sides.
Kate booked the Milford Sound cruise to include a buffet lunch which I was looking forward to. We had prepared for this by eating a tiny breakfast and only half a chocolate milk each that morning.
Despite the weather being fine with clear skies for the entire trip so far, the conditions at Milford Sound are drizzly wet and cold. This is apparently typical weather for this small part of the world. Despite what you might see on post cards.
The cruise started with our "buffet" lunch. While there was a moderate number of people on board this particular outing, Kate and I were apparently the only two to book the buffet lunch among the two lunch choices. Our two person buffet was served up on a private table on the otherwise abandoned middle deck. See photo. Needless to say, we did not finish.
Once we were done with lunch we could focus on the cruise through the misty fiord. Amazing scenery and an opportunity to stand under a waterfall spilling straight into the ocean!
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