We spent 4 days in the snow in Fiordland National Park. We convinced ourselves that due to lack of time we cannot do one of the multi-day tramps in the area and settled for visiting Milford Sound and Doubtful Sound. As it turned out, this was a wise decision since the weather was horrible during the first 2 days. We saw Milford through the rain drops and were not able to do any short hikes on the way there nor on the way back.
At least we met again with our favorite alpine parrot. This time the cheeky Kea got closer and attempted eating our car...
On the way back from Milford the sky cleared up a bit but a few hours later we were in heavy snow again.
The next day was our one successful day in the park. We woke up to clear blue sky and took a cruise to Doubtful Sound, crossing a nice lake to get to it.
Here we also saw our first penguin in wildlife - hiding between the bushes a few meters from the boat (sorry, no picture)
One of the people on our boat cruise has officially won the 'super-traveler' award. This 61-year-old Brit has celebrated his 500th day of traveling, with 400 more to come! Now that is a hell of a trip. An inspiration to us all.p.s.
We realized that there was a horrible error in the previous entry. Oren did not get the credit for his seal slide!! This has been rectified with the correct link
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