8th of
april.
We arrived in Milford sound about 4 pm after one great taxi ride. The
scenery was so beautiful. Such a shame I managed to sleep through half of it… I
some how thought it was a 3 hour ride. It was only 45 minutes. Oh well!!! We checked
in at the Milford Lodge and were positively surprised by the place, it had an
awesome lounge and a little shop that we straight away bought crisps and
chocolate from. We ate and ate and it was soooo gooood. And the nice receptionist
turned out to be almost exactly from where we lived in Stockholm, Hagersten.
Just one street below us. Small world ey! Had a nice Swedish chat with him. He
had been there for 3 years!!
In the evening, after
eating for about 2 hours…we thought we needed to go for a walk and we wanted to
see a proper milford sound sunset. It was magical!! (Magical is a word I will
use a lot in this post!!) After that we craved a big cold beer, so we went to a
pub nearby called ‘the blue duck’. It was a good beer and a very nice pub! Life
couldn’t be better, really, magical..
9th of
april.
We woke up ready to kayak. Milford fjord here we come!! (We are told
milford sound is misleading…cos its not a sound, it is a fjord…they just didn’t
know what a fjord was back then.) Our guide was a proper kiwi, really funny and
very passionate about his thing! We were only 7 people, a good group. The
kayaking went amazingly well, me and dave had some communication issues at
times but not major…(we shared a kayak)…hehe. All I can say is that Milford
fjord is a magical place…and it has to be experienced! We were pretty lucky
with the weather, the wind on our side and blue sky! Although the guide said
there is no bad weather when it comes to milford, if it rains there are amazing
waterfalls that you don’t get otherwise. But we were happy with the sunshine
and we got to experience one powerful waterfall anyway that is always there no
matter what. Magical.
Now we had to focus on
getting back to Queenstown where our friends Steven and Cecile were waiting for
us to celebrate…loads of things…but mostly that Cecile is getting married to
Mark in 13 days!!
It was a wonderful
night with pizzas, beers, dancing, a man in a club who voluntarily stripped for
Cecile (hahhaha) and more dancing!! So much fun!!
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