No such luck again this morning getting on a flight to Milford Sound, so we decided to switch things up a bit – instead of heading to Franz Josef Glacier, we opted for an overnite cruise on Doubtful Sound. This required a 2 hour drive, an hour long boat ride across a lake, an hour long bus ride across a mountain pass, and then an overnite cruise on a second boat. Great experience. We saw some Fiordland Crested Penguins, the rarest penguins in the world, and sailed briefly out into the open ocean. Also met some old guy from Australia who said that “whales float by my house all the time.”
(luxury accommodations aboard the Fiordland Navigator).
(Kristin, foreground. Fiordland Navigator, background)
(Doubtful Sound is not a sound, but a fiord...carved by glaciers and backfilled by the ocean...Captain Cook got this as wrong as Hawaiian politics).
(into the Tasman Sea)
(and back...)
(the Fiorland Crested Penguin is not only rare, it's also very small)
(we clearly need a new camera...those are seals on that rock...)
(luxury accommodations aboard the Fiordland Navigator).
(Kristin, foreground. Fiordland Navigator, background)
(into the Tasman Sea)
(and back...)
(we clearly need a new camera...those are seals on that rock...)
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