Our cabin on the ‘Southern Secret’ is very comfortable. We both slept well with calm water all evening. Unfortunately, yesterdays’ good weather isn’t holding. It’s overcast and a little cool when we rise. The Sound is still beautiful. It’s about a 3-hour cruise back to Deep Cove where the ship will dock. Along the way…
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We are off today to have an overnight visit on Doubtful Sound, another part of Fiordland National Park and a UNESCO heritage site. We have booked our tour with Fiordland Cruises who operate an extremely small boat in Doubtful Sound. We arrive at the departure point and meet up with our six fellow travelers for…
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We signed up for a small group tour of the Milford Sound with Fiordland Tours out of Te Anau. Milford Sound is quite a place, a fiord inside Fiordland National Park – a world heritage site once called the ‘8th wonder of the world’ by no less than Rudyard Kipling. Our route takes us along…
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It was a short, ten-minute drive to the Marlborough Airport this morning. We park the rental vehicle 500 feet from the door and drop the keys in the box. We pretty much self-check in and tag our bags, no one asks for identification. They do weigh the bags and Dicks (while within limits), gets a…
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